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SnickerSEater
Profile Joined November 2011
Australia20 Posts
August 29 2012 01:22 GMT
#41
I'm in diamond and wanted to switch race, so I left literally 70 games or so. By the end I was playing against low bronze people and every single one of them was fully favoured... I played about 70 more games since then, winning like 95% and my MMR is now high plat or so. I'm still in diamond though... How can this be if the ladder is not locked? This was 3 days ago, I'm still generating bonus pool...
"always be cheeky"
Sif_
Profile Joined January 2011
Brazil3106 Posts
August 29 2012 01:50 GMT
#42
I can also confirm that bonus pool keeps rising. I can't say anything other than that as i'm im no risk of getting either promoted or demoted (1500masters). In fact, i think a bonus point just ticked in the last few minutes for me
korona
Profile Joined October 2009
1098 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-29 02:18:01
August 29 2012 02:14 GMT
#43
Both on NA & EU server bonus pools stopped growing on Saturday 2012-08-25 according to the web profiles. On SC2 clients the bonus pools are still growing. When I wrote this message the max pool for master+ on NA server according to SC2 client was 997 (growing), but according to the web profiles 948 (this has not grown since 25th). For EU server the master+ pools are: 989 according to client (growing) & 936 according to web profiles (not growing since 25th).

The question is like Skeldark stated: Can you use the bonus points you have gained after 25th? E.g. If you had used all your bonus points at 25th, have you been awarded bonus points when winning according to the match result screen after 25th (and do the points shown in the match history match the score screen points if bonus points were awarded)? Or is it just a display bug that Blizzard often has when seasons are locked.


Before this season Blizzard always locked ladder during weekly maintenances (exception: end of May & beginning of June 2011 when they had ladder locked several weeks due to some GM promotion bug. It was a mid season lock that they only admitted after some weeks when the community noticed). Locking the ladder on a weekend seems little odd timing. One Bnet interface improvement that I would like to see is that it would show a big text "Ladder is locked" on top of the ladder lists when ladder is locked.
Tao367
Profile Joined June 2012
United Kingdom324 Posts
August 29 2012 16:20 GMT
#44
Would be nice to get an update from Blizzard on this. They're communicating less and less every day at the moment, this is not good.
Billd
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada210 Posts
August 29 2012 19:12 GMT
#45
Hey again guys

Blue post about a minute ago

"The 2012 Season 3 ladder has been locked since August 25, and 2012 Season 4 will begin on September 1. More information surrounding the season transition and map pool details will be released in an upcoming blog, so stay tuned for more info!"

Link: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/6079610111#18
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AGIANTSMURF
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States1232 Posts
August 29 2012 19:13 GMT
#46
On August 30 2012 04:12 Billd wrote:
Hey again guys

Blue post about a minute ago

"The 2012 Season 3 ladder has been locked since August 25, and 2012 Season 4 will begin on September 1. More information surrounding the season transition and map pool details will be released in an upcoming blog, so stay tuned for more info!"

Link: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/6079610111#18



interesting since bonus pool has been increasing steadily since the 25th. guess they slipped up or are changing the way seasons work?
Thats "Grand-Master" SMURF to you.....
stichtom
Profile Joined March 2011
Italy695 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-29 23:10:39
August 29 2012 23:10 GMT
#47
They've changed the date. Season 3 2012 will end on September 5 and Season 4 2012 will start on September 12

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Billd
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada210 Posts
August 29 2012 23:23 GMT
#48
On August 30 2012 08:10 stichtom wrote:
They've changed the date. Season 3 2012 will end on September 5 and Season 4 2012 will start on September 12

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Yup it changed on NA to locking on the 4th and the new season beginning on the 11th. Completely contradictory to the blue post in the thread I linked. Nice!
@BilldSC I tweet about all things Starcraft 2!
Billd
Profile Joined April 2011
Canada210 Posts
August 29 2012 23:41 GMT
#49
And here's the confirmation that it is indeed the 4th for NA and around the day for the other servers.

"
Cloaken
Community Manager
Greetings, everyone.

We wanted to inform you that Season 3 of 2012 will lock this coming Tuesday, September 4, 2012.

We are aware that this date is different from the one previously projected and displayed in the StarCraft II client and for that we apologize. The original expectation was for the season lock to occur on August 25, however the new tools implemented in patch 1.5.0 for handling upcoming season rolls did not function as we had anticipated. That being said, this season will now officially lock on September 4 and come to a conclusion on September 11 with the start of Season 4.

Thanks for your patience. If you’re on the cusp of reaching your goals for this season, we encourage you to get after it! You still have a few more days to make a final push."


Link: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/6412104901
@BilldSC I tweet about all things Starcraft 2!
AntiFusion
Profile Joined July 2012
United Kingdom1 Post
August 30 2012 01:34 GMT
#50
On August 30 2012 08:41 Billd wrote:
And here's the confirmation that it is indeed the 4th for NA and around the day for the other servers.

"
Cloaken
Community Manager
Greetings, everyone.

We wanted to inform you that Season 3 of 2012 will lock this coming Tuesday, September 4, 2012.

We are aware that this date is different from the one previously projected and displayed in the StarCraft II client and for that we apologize. The original expectation was for the season lock to occur on August 25, however the new tools implemented in patch 1.5.0 for handling upcoming season rolls did not function as we had anticipated. That being said, this season will now officially lock on September 4 and come to a conclusion on September 11 with the start of Season 4.

Thanks for your patience. If you’re on the cusp of reaching your goals for this season, we encourage you to get after it! You still have a few more days to make a final push."


Link: http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/6412104901


Sweet. I noticed on Eu it magically changed from locking on 25th aug to sept 5th (season ending sept 13th) and was hunting for the official word. Looks like there is just enough time to get that double promotion after all. Thanks for the update <3
Look to your sins. The night is dark and full of terrors.
paddyz
Profile Joined May 2011
Ireland628 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-30 03:26:59
August 30 2012 03:22 GMT
#51
Wait the season ends the same day as my programming deadline. So much for getting 1st in everything. top 8 will have to do because I can play for the last month of the season, again. Annoying this is im free to play as much as i want once september starts. would gladly play another 800 games in september alone :/.
Seasons end at the most annoying times T.T, first for most of the season but rarely finish 1st.

locked on the 5th, over on the 12th september?
If that is true it is the first change blizzard made that I am happy with in a long time =D.
1500pt masters 2v2r inc!
Deleted User 218615
Profile Joined September 2011
163 Posts
August 30 2012 03:30 GMT
#52
Man, I was hoping for a new season September 1st. 10 more days with no chance of promotion is not fun!

Guess I'll just try to hit rank 1 in my division though.
skeldark
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany2223 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-30 12:55:55
August 30 2012 12:53 GMT
#53
Can confirm what korona found out.
Webserver and Bnet was out of sync for some days.
Looks like different teams had different days for the lock and did not communicate with each other.


Data of the last days of my tool:
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=334561
can be wrong. Dont know yet if all server are affected.
Save gaming: kill esport
kranten
Profile Joined January 2012
Netherlands236 Posts
August 30 2012 13:01 GMT
#54
On August 29 2012 07:46 Garhf wrote:
I played vs a GM and I'm Plat. lost pretty badly (although I got a +0). I think it's possible to play vs any league even if it's locked, It's just impossible to get promoted/demoted.


Sometimes it messes up and you play vs opponents that are way better, remember those GM/master vs bronze screenshots on reddit 2 weeks ago?
S0ulfire
Profile Joined March 2011
27 Posts
August 30 2012 13:08 GMT
#55
Well, if you go to quick match, you can actually see that it says "9/12/12" that the season is ending, at least it says that for me, I guess Blizzard postponed it
skeldark
Profile Joined April 2010
Germany2223 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-30 13:12:25
August 30 2012 13:11 GMT
#56
On August 30 2012 22:08 S0ulfire wrote:
Well, if you go to quick match, you can actually see that it says "9/12/12" that the season is ending, at least it says that for me, I guess Blizzard postponed it

Its not only postponed.
The started the lock at parts of the system but not on others.
After they notice they postponed. Or they postponed and forgot to cancel it at all places.

NA is fixed. EU is still in the 50/50 mode.
Save gaming: kill esport
IceCube
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
Croatia1403 Posts
August 30 2012 13:11 GMT
#57
On August 28 2012 22:34 Grampz wrote:
i've been getting bonus pool even though it's locked

DAMNIT ADONMINUS

lawl nice one
Forever Vulture.. :(
Syncker
Profile Joined September 2010
Finland142 Posts
August 30 2012 13:22 GMT
#58
Just got promoted to diamond on my smurf 15 minutes ago. So its not locked still.
DontNerfInfestors
Profile Joined August 2012
Spain280 Posts
August 30 2012 13:30 GMT
#59
I got promoted, so no.
Please dont nerf them.Infestors are fine.
DontNerfInfestors
Profile Joined August 2012
Spain280 Posts
August 30 2012 13:33 GMT
#60
On August 30 2012 22:01 kranten wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 29 2012 07:46 Garhf wrote:
I played vs a GM and I'm Plat. lost pretty badly (although I got a +0). I think it's possible to play vs any league even if it's locked, It's just impossible to get promoted/demoted.


Sometimes it messes up and you play vs opponents that are way better, remember those GM/master vs bronze screenshots on reddit 2 weeks ago?

pls link the pics
Please dont nerf them.Infestors are fine.
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