• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 03:27
CET 08:27
KST 16:27
  • Home
  • Forum
  • Calendar
  • Streams
  • Liquipedia
  • Features
  • Store
  • EPT
  • TL+
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Smash
  • Heroes
  • Counter-Strike
  • Overwatch
  • Liquibet
  • Fantasy StarCraft
  • TLPD
  • StarCraft 2
  • Brood War
  • Blogs
Forum Sidebar
Events/Features
News
Featured News
[ASL22] Finals Preview: Sweet Victory!9[ASL22] Ro4 Preview: Mirror Mirror6[ASL22] Ro8 Preview: Within Reach5[ASL22] Ro8 Preview: In A Tizzy11[ASL22] Ro16 Preview: Holy Diver5
Community News
Evil Geniuses - shutting down14ISSL (IntoTheTV x SOOP SC2 League): Premier5Weekly Cups (October 12-18): 5.0.17 era begins1[$1250] International ShieldBattery League76Weekly Cups (October 5-11): Farewell to 5.0.167
StarCraft 2
General
How do you feel about the mass reverts in the 5.0.17 PTR? REPORT: StarCraft 2: Remastered In Development Team Liquid Map Contest #22: Results and Winners No more SC2 streamers on team liquid? Evil Geniuses - shutting down
Tourneys
ScienceCraft (October 24-25) - Live Event Sparkling Tuna Cup - Weekly Open Tournament RSL goes to London! 2026 Offline Finals Nov 21-22 ISSL (IntoTheTV x SOOP SC2 League): Premier WORTEX Challenger Series — Open SC2 LAN in Budapes
Strategy
[H] ZvP Mid-Late Game: Stalkers Collossi HT
Custom Maps
[G] How to playtest arcade maps [A] Nemrods 1/4 players [M] (2) Sweltering Sands
External Content
Mutation # 549 Endless Sparkles The PondCast: SC2 News & Results Mutation # 548 Shining Bright Mutation # 547 Temple Of Terror
Brood War
General
Recent recommended BW games Oceanic Brood War - Join and chat! Bot on ladder BW General Discussion Sagi.gg Launcher Released
Tourneys
[$1250] International ShieldBattery League [Megathread] Daily Proleagues [ASL22] Grand Finals [BSL23] RO24 Group C
Strategy
Cliff Jump Revisited (1 in a 1000 strategy) 50,000-Word Terran Builds Memo 2026-10-22 Simple Questions, Simple Answers
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Mobile Legends: Bang Bang Armies of Exigo - YesYes? General RTS Discussion Thread
Dota 2
Dota 2 Champions League Season 3 Begins April 25!
League of Legends
[TL LoL EUW IHs] Teemo shall perish
Heroes of the Storm
Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Deck construction bug
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Canadian Politics Mega-thread Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine European Politico-economics QA Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread
Fan Clubs
Reynor Fan Club The Flash Fan Club Serral Fan Club
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece
Sports
Football (Soccer) Thread TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 MLB/Baseball 2023
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
Recent Gifted Posts
Blogs
Innovate or Game Over?
TrAiDoS
ShieldBattery on Mac
Kraekkling
[ASL22] Ro4 Day1 Ticket Giv…
bITt.mAN
Can Bots Beat Pros?? Starcr…
namkraft
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 8136 users

SC2 Ladder needs to be reworked. - Page 3

Forum Index > SC2 General
Post a Reply
Prev 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 Next All
pigmanbear
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Angola2010 Posts
January 17 2015 12:56 GMT
#41
On January 17 2015 16:42 Gamegene wrote:
you're blaming the ladder for not getting GM? cmon man.

It's GGZerg. Everybody's a hacker and it's all a big consipiracy and he's the smartest guy ever on TeamLiquid.
pigmanbear
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Angola2010 Posts
January 17 2015 12:58 GMT
#42
And yea, it sucks when there are three bunkers up as your hatch finishes on a four-player map, but not that much you can do about it because Blizzard isn't able to detect all of the hacks. F10+n and move on ...
Cascade
Profile Blog Joined March 2006
Australia5405 Posts
January 17 2015 13:01 GMT
#43
Hacking is obviously a huge fundamental problem, and there is no way blizzard can "fix" that in a convincing way, no matter how much they charge. So well, don't hold your breath for that. Train with people you know if you want to avoid it, it's a better training method than only massing ladder games anyway.

Regarding ladder ranking, I feel it'd be better to just show the MMR to the users... MMR is a great measure of skill for an active player (deacy has some issues, but not relevant to this thread), so let's use it! I really don't see why not. The "people don't want to feel bad when they suck" argument isn't really applicable as they already demote people into lower leagues, which obviously makes people such as the OP feel bad.

And regarding "I beat an GM, I must be good!!", Once you are in GM in the start-of-season, they essentially only kick you out for inactivity, right? So accounts that are boosted/cheated into GM, and then played without boost/cheat can get their MMR a lot lower than what is needed for GM, but will still show up as GM in the match history. Or I think that is how it works, someone confirm please?
Scarecrow
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Korea (South)9175 Posts
January 17 2015 13:16 GMT
#44
On January 17 2015 21:35 Haukinger wrote:
Show nested quote +
-MapHacking

-Production Hacks

-Resolution Hacks( This is a hack that gives the player a larger more zoomed out screen, he can see more of the screen than normal, like the Blizzard Observer Mode IN GAME., I do have replays to prove this and will post them when I get home, I am at work ATM.)

-Blink Hack (Automatically blinks stalkers for the player, giving protoss huge micro management advantage)

-Auto Inject Hack (Automatically injects queens for you, is pretty easy to notice, if the Zerg player has NO EXTRA energy on his queens ALL GAME.)


Never understood really why all these aren't actually built into the game. All this dumb mechanical stuff is like "fightning-the-controls", isn't it? Why can't marines split automatically? Why do banelings roll into Marauders when Marines are around?

Why can't I just select a build order and alt-tab? It's almost like this is a game that requires strategy, control and decisions in real time.
Yhamm is the god of predictions
plgElwood
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany518 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-17 13:25:35
January 17 2015 13:23 GMT
#45
Well the system promotes those who earn it. If you are really upset get a new account. I think with 15000 games, maybe 10.000 of them in Masters, OP is simply not cut out for GM, no matter the points earned/lost.

On the lower end:o
Basicly Ladder suffers from most active players being "too good". Ladder has no purpose unless you try hard to get better or enjoy the game in general, not matter the rank.

My experience to get a win in 2014 at WC3-TFT was: Not happening. I never played WC3 competetively i did not follow pro scene, the heck, I dont even finished the campaign. But today there is no one like me playing WC3-TFT. I guess I have to read 2000 pages of WC tactics and dig out hours of Khaldor's audio commentary. To get close.


Is there an actual number of copies Sold/Month of SC2? Or newly created accounts?

2010:
Bronze: You did not attack your own structures ! Great !
Silver: You got to 100 o Supply once ! Great !
Gold: You now know how2 4Gate. Great !
Platinum: Actuall Micro/Macro + 2 BO/MU
Diamond: So you played BW huh? IdraIdraIdra


2014:
All stepped up. Even Bronzes now know what a BO is.

Newcomers who watch their workers for 5 minutes get a high5, in the face, with a shovel. Back to Campaign it is.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
alpenrahm
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany629 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-17 15:36:20
January 17 2015 15:30 GMT
#46
Ok so i checked on some data.

On sc2 ranks it says that globally for the current season there are: Source

per 2 Gm we have 22 Masters, 119 Diamonds ... 256 ... 751 .... 839 ... 421

So considering there are 200 Gm slots that would give us a global total of 2200 Master League players.
And a Total active player base of: 482000 Players, Globally.

Now, Source in 2015 we have 125 Professional Sc2 Players listed in the WCS Ranking. These players are legitemally good enough to maintain 1 Main account and 1 Smurf in Their respective GM leagues and unless you are cheating or a Pro yourself you wont get promoted to Gm over these.
(tho the actual number of Pro MIGHT be somewhat higher this is the MINIMUM of pro players we HAVE to account for.

So we know that no pros play on Sea- that means we have 600 Gm slots to spend from which 250 are alread occupied by Pros, leaving us with 350 GM slots TOTAL remaining.

So to get master league or GM respectively you have to beat out 481800 or 479800 Players.

If of these players 1% is Hacking, and we have to assume they are somewhat decent and dedicated players to even go so far, we have 4818 Hackers that are competeing with you for 350 Gm and Master slots. And thats not counting their Smurfs. So you see, even if just 0.1% of the playerbase is Hackers, and they WILL! inevetably accumulate in High Master League, you have 481 Hackers to beat before you get Gm. Also remember that there is a huge amount of former Pros and BW guys out there .... so:

Good Luck and Have fun. We all struggle.

EDIT: if I look at my friends and how many of them used to be in Masters and are now struggling to even get diamond, and im only concerned about the ones that actualy stayed active, i have to say the only logical conclusion is that Master league, over the course of Hots either got a lot smaller, cut in half or more, and or that Hackers are occupying the higher up spots.
StatixEx
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United Kingdom779 Posts
January 17 2015 15:33 GMT
#47
ye i feel this way all the time, i play hundreds of games . . hundreds of them and i dont get promoted, they always seem to have more stuff, i feel my games consistent i win some i lose some . i do believe i am getting better but the the thing is i am not getting that promotion. the thing is the ladder might be broken in itself in terms of where you place but i dont think the mmr is. i dont care personally that im in such a league, as long as the game is challenging enough and i can seriously understand and make up some excuse that on how i lost.

anyways, i still think its broken i deserve to be in silver at least
alpenrahm
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany629 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-17 15:41:11
January 17 2015 15:37 GMT
#48
On January 18 2015 00:33 StatixEx wrote:
ye i feel this way all the time, i play hundreds of games . . hundreds of them and i dont get promoted, they always seem to have more stuff, i feel my games consistent i win some i lose some . i do believe i am getting better but the the thing is i am not getting that promotion. the thing is the ladder might be broken in itself in terms of where you place but i dont think the mmr is. i dont care personally that im in such a league, as long as the game is challenging enough and i can seriously understand and make up some excuse that on how i lost.

anyways, i still think its broken i deserve to be in silver at least


Sorry mate, Silver and Bronze are just Mathematically uneffected by Hacking... you will just have to improve your Game.

Edit: sorry about the german Grammar... sometimes its really hard to stop writing nouns in Capital Letters...
imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
January 17 2015 15:47 GMT
#49
QQ i can't get GM post. A long one at least and ranting on hackers doesn't hurt (even if it's probably totally useless).
Zest fanboy.
sabas123
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Netherlands3122 Posts
January 17 2015 15:50 GMT
#50
why the fuck would anybody want to get rid of the current match making? besides the fact from league promotions the its one of the best systems out there.

One thing people should remember is when you step over to an elo based ranking is that you then match off points, and have fun playing against top wcs players and still lose the same as you would lose to if your opponent is broze.
The harder it becomes, the more you should focus on the basics.
jrdeal
Profile Joined November 2014
United States24 Posts
January 17 2015 15:54 GMT
#51
I think Starcraft II would benefit from some third party action in terms of anti-hacks. I feel like the community, especially at Team Liquid, would be more then willing to pour efforts into designing anti-hacks that would serve to improve ladder play immensely.

On a funnier note I believe (T)ClouD from way back in Wings quit laddering because the system refused to rank him out of platinum.
spOOky
Pirfiktshon
Profile Joined June 2013
United States1072 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-17 15:56:50
January 17 2015 15:55 GMT
#52
Let me just start saying Hackers and Script kiddies are 2 very very very different things... and what you are describing is a script kiddie using someone elses work to exploit the game....

I hate script kiddies probably more than everyone on this post that specifically try to exploit video games.... its retarded if you want to cheat the game play against the computer.... doing it in a competitive setting ( Unless is a hacking competition Ghost in the shellcode i'm looking at you ) is completely revolting but even in saying that there are GMs out there like Demuslim that can play against hackers and win ez pz because they rely on the hack which actually creates a certain threshold where just plain being the better player is all that matters....

In short accept your loss learn from it move on so you can learn to improve....

PS People that grind an insane amount of games more times than not are just bashing their head against the wall because they don't stop to try to fix their play not saying thats what you are doing but you should do a self examination and be honest with yourself....
imre
Profile Blog Joined November 2011
France9263 Posts
January 17 2015 15:57 GMT
#53
On January 18 2015 00:50 sabas123 wrote:
why the fuck would anybody want to get rid of the current match making? besides the fact from league promotions the its one of the best systems out there.

One thing people should remember is when you step over to an elo based ranking is that you then match off points, and have fun playing against top wcs players and still lose the same as you would lose to if your opponent is broze.


the matchmaking is freaking amazing. Replacing leagues by mmr would be really cool too but I understand why it's not the case, and ladder is just a practice tool anyway.
Zest fanboy.
Pirfiktshon
Profile Joined June 2013
United States1072 Posts
January 17 2015 16:11 GMT
#54
I think knowing our MMR would be better actually i think that would fix everyting
pigmanbear
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
Angola2010 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-17 17:01:18
January 17 2015 17:00 GMT
#55
On January 18 2015 00:30 alpenrahm wrote:
Ok so i checked on some data.

On sc2 ranks it says that globally for the current season there are: Source

per 2 Gm we have 22 Masters, 119 Diamonds ... 256 ... 751 .... 839 ... 421

So considering there are 200 Gm slots that would give us a global total of 2200 Master League players.
And a Total active player base of: 482000 Players, Globally.

Now, Source in 2015 we have 125 Professional Sc2 Players listed in the WCS Ranking. These players are legitemally good enough to maintain 1 Main account and 1 Smurf in Their respective GM leagues and unless you are cheating or a Pro yourself you wont get promoted to Gm over these.
(tho the actual number of Pro MIGHT be somewhat higher this is the MINIMUM of pro players we HAVE to account for.

So we know that no pros play on Sea- that means we have 600 Gm slots to spend from which 250 are alread occupied by Pros, leaving us with 350 GM slots TOTAL remaining.

So to get master league or GM respectively you have to beat out 481800 or 479800 Players.

If of these players 1% is Hacking, and we have to assume they are somewhat decent and dedicated players to even go so far, we have 4818 Hackers that are competeing with you for 350 Gm and Master slots. And thats not counting their Smurfs. So you see, even if just 0.1% of the playerbase is Hackers, and they WILL! inevetably accumulate in High Master League, you have 481 Hackers to beat before you get Gm. Also remember that there is a huge amount of former Pros and BW guys out there .... so:

Good Luck and Have fun. We all struggle.

EDIT: if I look at my friends and how many of them used to be in Masters and are now struggling to even get diamond, and im only concerned about the ones that actualy stayed active, i have to say the only logical conclusion is that Master league, over the course of Hots either got a lot smaller, cut in half or more, and or that Hackers are occupying the higher up spots.

Finally having the time to seriously 1v1 again, I've definitely noticed the change in ladder balance that Blizz implemented. A year ago, I was a solid mid/high Diamond and with properly aged cheese could take out low masters players. Now I'm a Platinum (mid-level at best), and I don't chalk that up to rusty mechanics, given that I've got a few weeks under my belt again. I'm actually going to have to practice to get back into Diamond! Gold and most of platinum used to be a joke but it seems like anybody high-Gold and above can pull off passable macro, micro, and strategy these days.
KalWarkov
Profile Blog Joined December 2011
Germany4126 Posts
Last Edited: 2015-01-17 17:07:42
January 17 2015 17:05 GMT
#56
when ur stuck in diamond, you are nowhere CLOSE to be gm.

If you never got promoted to GM, you are probably not good enough. The system is acutally not -super- bad. I consider myself a low gm player and was in gm 14 times. how come?
DiaBoLuS ** Sc2 - Protoss: 16x GM | Dota2 - Offlane Immortal | Wc3 - Undead decent level | Diablo nerd | Chess / Magnus fanboy | BVB | Agnostic***
StatixEx
Profile Blog Joined August 2011
United Kingdom779 Posts
January 17 2015 17:17 GMT
#57
On January 18 2015 00:47 sAsImre wrote:
QQ i can't get GM post. A long one at least and ranting on hackers doesn't hurt (even if it's probably totally useless).


sorry mate along with adblock turn on that kappa meter this has gone undetected
alpenrahm
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Germany629 Posts
January 17 2015 17:27 GMT
#58
On January 18 2015 02:05 KalWarkov wrote:
when ur stuck in diamond, you are nowhere CLOSE to be gm.

If you never got promoted to GM, you are probably not good enough. The system is acutally not -super- bad. I consider myself a low gm player and was in gm 14 times. how come?


Veteran Script cheating kid confirmed? since you r GM and i have never seen you in any competition (not under CoralWarKOv atleast)
Haukinger
Profile Joined June 2012
Germany131 Posts
January 17 2015 17:30 GMT
#59
On January 17 2015 22:16 Scarecrow wrote:
Show nested quote +
On January 17 2015 21:35 Haukinger wrote:
-MapHacking

-Production Hacks

-Resolution Hacks( This is a hack that gives the player a larger more zoomed out screen, he can see more of the screen than normal, like the Blizzard Observer Mode IN GAME., I do have replays to prove this and will post them when I get home, I am at work ATM.)

-Blink Hack (Automatically blinks stalkers for the player, giving protoss huge micro management advantage)

-Auto Inject Hack (Automatically injects queens for you, is pretty easy to notice, if the Zerg player has NO EXTRA energy on his queens ALL GAME.)


Never understood really why all these aren't actually built into the game. All this dumb mechanical stuff is like "fightning-the-controls", isn't it? Why can't marines split automatically? Why do banelings roll into Marauders when Marines are around?

Why can't I just select a build order and alt-tab? It's almost like this is a game that requires strategy, control and decisions in real time.

Well, it first and foremost requires control. I bet, if you're fast enough, you can beat any pro out there, without any strategy or decision involved.
I'd like to be able to select a bo and alt-tab and see the game evvolve. You'd be able to focus on strategy and decisions, then, when to move out, where to position your army-groups...
Topin
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Peru10129 Posts
January 17 2015 17:32 GMT
#60
i really like WC3:ROC ladder, brutal but honest
i would define my style between a mix of ByuN, Maru and MKP
Prev 1 2 3 4 5 7 8 9 Next All
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 3h 33m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
WinterStarcraft531
StarCraft: Brood War
Rain 2537
Hyuk 1042
Leta 158
Dewaltoss 100
Pusan 60
Mind 44
ZergMaN 26
Noble 16
League of Legends
JimRising 583
Super Smash Bros
hungrybox802
Heroes of the Storm
Trikslyr46
Other Games
summit1g8790
Sick134
NeuroSwarm70
Organizations
Other Games
gamesdonequick681
[ Show 12 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Berry_CruncH164
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• intothetv
• Kozan
• IndyKCrew
• Migwel
StarCraft: Brood War
• BSLYoutube
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
Dota 2
• lizZardDota2309
League of Legends
• Stunt523
Other Games
• Scarra1201
Upcoming Events
IntoTheTV X SOOP
3h 33m
ByuN vs Lambo
MaxPax vs Bunny
PiGosaur Cup
16h 33m
The PondCast
1d 2h
Kung Fu Cup
1d 3h
IntoTheTV X SOOP
2 days
SHIN vs GuMiho
Clem vs Classic
OSC
2 days
WardiTV Invitational
3 days
GSL
3 days
Epic.LAN
3 days
Replay Cast
3 days
[ Show More ]
Sparkling Tuna Cup
4 days
Epic.LAN
4 days
Yamato Cup
5 days
Map Test Tournament
5 days
WardiTV Weekly
6 days
Replay Cast
6 days
Rogue vs Classic
Liquipedia Results

Completed

Acropolis #5 - GSC
Blizzard Classic Cup 2026
HCC Season 3

Ongoing

Acropolis #5
KCM Race Survival 2026 Season 4
International ShieldBattery League
BSL Season 23
PGL Masters Bucharest 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 5
1win Private Club #2
Thunderpick World Champ. '26
ESL Pro League Season 24
Stake Ranked Episode 4
1win Private Club #1
Logitech G Play Connect 2026
SL StarSeries Fall 2026
FISSURE Playground #3
BLAST Open Fall 2026
Esports World Cup 2026

Upcoming

IPSL Winter 2026-27
SC4ALL II: Brood War
BSL 23: Non-Korean Championship
HSC XXX
Stellar Fest 2: Lunar Cup
SC4ALL II: StarCraft II
Kung Fu Cup 2026 Grand Finals
RSL Offline Finals
eXTREMESLAND 2026
PGL Major Singapore 2026
Stake Ranked Episode 6
BLAST Rivals Fall 2026
IEM Beijing 2026
TLPD

1. ByuN
2. TY
3. Dark
4. Solar
5. Stats
6. Nerchio
7. sOs
8. soO
9. INnoVation
10. Elazer
1. Rain
2. Flash
3. EffOrt
4. Last
5. Bisu
6. Soulkey
7. Mini
8. Sharp
Sidebar Settings...

Advertising | Privacy Policy | Terms Of Use | Contact Us

Original banner artwork: Jim Warren
The contents of this webpage are copyright © 2026 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.