Biggest skill gap between leagues? - Page 3

Nexic

United States729 Posts

July 28 2011 03:54 GMT

#41

On July 28 2011 12:48 KimJongChill wrote:

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.

I thought about this as I wrote my post. You could probably say there's a gray area between the highest/lowest of any two consecutive leagues so it's a difficult question.

For my answer, I just know I couldn't come close to beating a GM/very high masters player as a relatively new masters player; I don't know if there's really that huge of a skill gap within diamond or any other particular league.

NotSorry

United States6722 Posts

July 28 2011 03:59 GMT

#42

Diamond to Masters the range from low diamond to high masters is worlds apart. GM is hard to get into due to the arbitrary way it's handled, a large number of master players are better than a majority of GMs but were excluded because they didn't ladder enough the first weeks or have to wait for people in GM now to go inactive to drop out.

Icekommander

Canada483 Posts

July 28 2011 04:00 GMT

#43

On July 28 2011 12:59 NotSorry wrote:
Diamond to Masters the range from low diamond to high masters is worlds apart. GM is hard to get into due to the arbitrary way it's handled, a large number of master players are better than a majority of GMs but were excluded because they didn't ladder enough the first weeks or have to wait for people in GM now to go inactive to drop out.

This. GM should be considered the highest subset of Masters, rather than its own league.

JKira

Canada1002 Posts

July 28 2011 04:03 GMT

#44

I don't think there's too much of a skill difference between Masters and GM. The largest skill cap is between casual masters/gm and progamers.

sjschmidt93

United States2518 Posts

July 28 2011 04:06 GMT

#45

Certainly Diamond to Masters, considering Blizzard's ideal league split is 20/20/20/20/18/2 (2% being masters duh)

lizzard_warish

589 Posts

July 28 2011 05:43 GMT

#46

On July 28 2011 13:06 sjschmidt93 wrote:
Certainly Diamond to Masters, considering Blizzard's ideal league split is 20/20/20/20/18/2 (2% being masters duh)

I think the 0.2% of grandmasters is insanely more difficult, by the very nature of what it is, the 200 absolute best in a region. Basically everyone there could make money off legitimate tournaments [not a lot for all of them, but still.]

tuestresfat

2555 Posts

July 28 2011 05:50 GMT

#47

Even though the leagues are split by the % of active players in a region, I feel the greatest gap in SKILL is the jump from GM to Masters.

With the same view, I honestly don't see too much of a difference between Bronze and Silver, or Silver and Gold. I think the difference in skill increases exponentially as you move up the leagues.

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