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Itsmedudeman
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States19229 Posts
July 28 2011 03:03 GMT
#21
Well statistically isn't that from bronze to silver? But in terms of improvement it's most certainly masters to GM. The amount of practice it takes to go from bronze to silver is not very much while masters to GM will take months assuming you're starting out like low masters and not on the brink already.
The_Templar
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
your Country52797 Posts
July 28 2011 03:06 GMT
#22
Somewhere between Platinum and Diamond is the ability to micro.
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Zythrst
Profile Joined March 2011
United States7 Posts
July 28 2011 03:06 GMT
#23
On July 28 2011 11:42 SDream wrote:
The biggest jump right now seems to be between Nestea and everyone else.

But if you want to stick to leagues, you should keep in mind that someone will be the "best" bronze and someone will be the "worst" silver, and the difference between them is basicly zero.

That said, you probably want to compare the lowest of bronze with the highest on silver (lowest of silver with highest of gold etc).

Then, keep in mind that the lowest bronze is that guy that doesn't make aditional scv and goes straight to barracks, then at 40 min he makes his first battlecruiser and try to attack with his 50 supply army.

That said, I don't have many doubts that the "right" answer is bronze to silver.


If you do it this way then this is of course the right answer, since the 'lowest' bronze's don't know how to play the game at all, and would have no shot of beating a silver player under any reasonable circumstances.
turdburgler
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
England6749 Posts
July 28 2011 03:10 GMT
#24
it seems pretty obvious that the skill differences would be more extreme between the 'edge' leagues. maybe im misreading the normal curve that shows player distributions but at least in my head that implies that bottom bronze -> silver has the biggest skill difference. diamond the masters would be second. masters to gm could be the highest but the sample size is tiny.

people seem to forget that bronze goes from players who watch dailies and are trying to improve all the way down to people who open with triple supply depot.
Kiaro
Profile Joined July 2011
United States75 Posts
July 28 2011 03:11 GMT
#25
I can't really definitively say, because I'm not a GM, but I'd have to say the biggest difference I can perceive is from low masters to high masters. The skill difference between a masters player who has like 1400 points and a masters player who has 1700 points is really huge, and I think it is even bigger than the skill difference between low masters and diamonds in my experience.
BushidoSnipr
Profile Joined November 2010
United States910 Posts
July 28 2011 03:11 GMT
#26
Been in Bronze-plat, not much of a skill gap than there is in Masters-GM
KDot2
Profile Blog Joined March 2011
United States1213 Posts
July 28 2011 03:17 GMT
#27
On July 28 2011 11:36 ThaZenith wrote:
Should be obvious, masters to GM's. From experience, there is little to no improvement from Bronze straight through till diamond. Masters actually get decent, and GMs are the guys you wish you could be as good as. ^^ lol


come on now

diamonds are tremendously better in all aspects than all leagues below it let alone bronze
phyren
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1067 Posts
July 28 2011 03:21 GMT
#28
On July 28 2011 11:40 ETisME wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 28 2011 11:32 AnxiousHippo wrote:
I would have thought that Bronze Leaguers would have a fairly hard time beginning to learn the game and trying to get to Silver. Otherwise, Masters to GM is hardest simply because you can only have so many GrandMasters.

You misundestood, I meant the skill gap, not how hard it is to get into a league.

I know that in quite a number of sport, most often the top players are all almost equal in terms of skill but it is some very very tiny skill gap that makes a player be the best or just one of the top players. I was wondering if same applies to SC2.

I heard that to get to GM only really needs you to be a high master and play more games while diamond has to work his ass off to get to master



this is sorta true, but the thing is, those tiny differences are huge determinations of skill. Having your builds refined down to the number of stalkers to get before a certain tech or unit placement are certain times to guard against drop/scouting is an example of a small difference in play but a huge difference in skill. Basically, the differences may be smaller higher up, but they are exponentially more difficult to develop and even to notice.
stormchaser
Profile Joined January 2011
Canada1009 Posts
July 28 2011 03:23 GMT
#29
diamond to master, no doubt. Master to GM doesn't make sense to me. I mean, from low masters to high masters seems like a bigger jump. Many people in High masters are just as good as GM dudes from watching streams. LiquidTyler is Masters, Destiny is Masters, Cruncher, as well, and many others. These guys I'm sure deserve to be GM but Bnet doesn't let that happen.
unit
Profile Blog Joined March 2009
United States2621 Posts
July 28 2011 03:30 GMT
#30
On July 28 2011 12:23 stormchaser wrote:
diamond to master, no doubt. Master to GM doesn't make sense to me. I mean, from low masters to high masters seems like a bigger jump. Many people in High masters are just as good as GM dudes from watching streams. LiquidTyler is Masters, Destiny is Masters, Cruncher, as well, and many others. These guys I'm sure deserve to be GM but Bnet doesn't let that happen.

well at the moment GM doesnt exist for the next ~2 weeks i think, however yes there are many people who should be GM that are not due to not laddering as much as the people who are...this is why i do not believe in GM, i believe in GM Skill level instead...it means more to be able to play at that level than have the solid gold icon imo
MiyaviTeddy
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Canada697 Posts
July 28 2011 03:35 GMT
#31
Bronze to Silver. Silver & Gold to Plat, Plat to Diamond/Masters.

I never knew there was a skill-level so atrocious as bronze players. I played one person who claimed to be a bronze (custom game match) and I thought he was throwing me off. Turns out he really is and the amount of rape that insured was overwhelming to the guy (in which I felt bad). Getting out of that into something decent does take a lot of skill in a sense.

Silver and Gold are similar in skill to me, plat seems to have a skill difference between the silver/gold players. Though Platinum and diamond, they're more "I can do this plus some other things" from "I can do this and that's it". Master/Diamond, they vary. I see some great diamonds players and shitty master players so I'm not quite sure what to think of this as. GM is obvious enough.
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vnlegend
Profile Blog Joined December 2006
United States1389 Posts
July 28 2011 03:36 GMT
#32
Masters-GM is the hugest gap. Low to mid masters, mid to high, high masters to low GM, mid GM, high GM, progamer players are all a level of their own.

Tournaments love to lump Masters/GM together though, so the GMs can easily beat up the masters players who are 10-100x worse. I'd probably play more tournaments if I was in Diamond.
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Mcrat
Profile Joined November 2010
Australia30 Posts
July 28 2011 03:38 GMT
#33
Unfortunately, I'm thinking Diamond > Masters as well.

I'm Diamond myself, and I'm pretty bad. Like last night played a TvT and 5-6 mins into it I had 1k minerals AFTER building an 'oh shit look at my mins CC'.

Granted that's pretty bad even for me, and doesn't happen often, but I was still able to come back and win even after being contained. It was more that he failed to take the win, rather than my skill at clawing my way back, but the fact that after my horrific start I was able to come back and not be punished severely for it, makes me think that Diamond just isn't that great.

Masters on the other hand... well like others have said, that's where the best of the best live (there are more than 200 players playing at top level).

I'm of the belief that top spot on a league is somewhere between low-mid of the league above (Diamond > Masters I'm thinking high D = low M) so I'm still hoping I can actually play more in S3, make top diamond and somehow fluke a promotion into a new Masters league but with openings like I listed above, I'm not too sure of that happening
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Icekommander
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
Canada483 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-28 03:40:52
July 28 2011 03:39 GMT
#34
Masters - GM is gap isn't all that big simply due to the fact that there are only 200 players. There are many top Masters players who are very good and can take games off many GM players (And those like Sheth and IdrA who get dropped out due to inactivity), but can't get into GM because of the 200 player limit.


Edit: That said, Masters (including GM) is one giant curve. My friend in Diamond can take occasional games off me. I have no chance of taking games off a GM player like rmdx.
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Tehkilla
Profile Joined August 2010
Sweden75 Posts
July 28 2011 03:42 GMT
#35
Diamond to master, the difference between Diamond and Master players are just huge. While the difference between Master and Grandmaster is big, a lot of people in Master can compete with the guys in Grandmaster.
Nexic
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States729 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-07-28 03:45:40
July 28 2011 03:45 GMT
#36
On July 28 2011 12:42 Tehkilla wrote:
Diamond to master, the difference between Diamond and Master players are just huge. While the difference between Master and Grandmaster is big, a lot of people in Master can compete with the guys in Grandmaster.
high diamond really isn't that different from low masters, from my own experience.

not even comparable to masters -> GM
ronpaul012
Profile Joined March 2011
United States769 Posts
July 28 2011 03:45 GMT
#37
Honestly, I cant really say. I don't know which necessarily has the largest skill gap. I think the real question is which one is hardest to close the gap, which of course would be master to gm.
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Arcanne
Profile Joined August 2010
United States1519 Posts
July 28 2011 03:48 GMT
#38
Its definitely not masters to Gm...
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KimJongChill
Profile Joined January 2011
United States6429 Posts
July 28 2011 03:48 GMT
#39
On July 28 2011 12:45 Nexic wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 28 2011 12:42 Tehkilla wrote:
Diamond to master, the difference between Diamond and Master players are just huge. While the difference between Master and Grandmaster is big, a lot of people in Master can compete with the guys in Grandmaster.
high diamond really isn't that different from low masters, from my own experience.

not even comparable to masters -> GM


I agree. Also, people need to use a consistent standard for measuring these gaps. Just saying that diamond->master is the hardest says nothing about the sheer range of skill in diamond. The lowest diamonds are worse than top gold, while the best diamond can even be better than mid master.
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Najda
Profile Joined June 2010
United States3765 Posts
July 28 2011 03:50 GMT
#40
The biggest gap is either Bronze -> Silver or Diamond -> Master. I've never been in bronze so I can't speak for it but if it is just a whole bunch of new people who know nothing of the game and then silver are people who actually know how to play then that is easily the biggest gap. If that isn't the case then my vote goes to Diamond -> Master because the difference between the two is mainly the consistency of the masters player and the ability to deal with a wider variety of opponents who execute their build well.

A good way to look at the gap is such:
Take random player X from league A and player Y from league A+1 and have them play a theoretical best of 101. Which league would result in the biggest gap?

In anything except Masters vs Diamond I feel the macro is just not at a high enough level to be consistent enough to create a large gap in the win rates. Since being bad usually means being inconsistent as well, I would not think it a big feat for a gold player to take a game off of a plat player.
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