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http://us.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/16542954341
We'll be applying some adjustments to the Heart of the Swarm ladder later today in all regions. We previously announced the changes that will be made during this maintenance earlier this week. We've copied the relevant details for today's update below.
Adjust league distribution
As mentioned, we’ve identified that the current league distribution percentages aren’t in line with our target percentages. The upcoming distribution changes should allow many more players to be in the correct league, and for each league to have the correct percentage of players based on the figures we announced for Heart of the Swarm. Once this adjustment is made, some players will see a change in their current league placement.
Adjust the starting point for new players
Due to the dynamic behavior of the StarCraft II ladder, we also saw that the new player starting point had drifted over time. This resulted in new players facing higher skilled opponents than in previous seasons. Adjusting the starting point for new players should improve the new player experience as they’ll be initially matched against lower league opponents once again.
Maintenance to apply this update will begin around 2:00 p.m PST in the SEA region and be deployed at a staggered rate to all other regions throughout the day. During this update, matchmaking functionality may become unavailable for a short period of time. We apologize for the inconvenience and will work to ensure this period of unavailability is as brief as possible. Players in-game during this time should be unaffected.
We'll look to provide further updates as maintenance is completed.
Region Status (in expected deploy order)
SEA: Complete
US: In Progress
KR: In Progress
CN: In Progress
EU: In Progress
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I got promoted last night. I hope that wasn't the only promotion I get.
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On March 06 2015 09:50 tok wrote:
I got promoted last night. I hope that wasn't the only promotion I get.
Don't get ahead of yourself.
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Sooooo im diamond.... next time I log in i'm bronze? GM? Are people being shifted up, down, or is it more complicated than that?
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On March 06 2015 10:55 dswarm wrote:
Sooooo im diamond.... next time I log in i'm bronze? GM? Are people being shifted up, down, or is it more complicated than that?
The league thresholds will have changed and a bunch of people will quickly change leagues after playing a few games. Since the leagues are way too bottom heavy, the general trend would be a huge amount of promotions
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On March 06 2015 10:55 dswarm wrote:
Sooooo im diamond.... next time I log in i'm bronze? GM? Are people being shifted up, down, or is it more complicated than that?
I'd imagine that you'll have to play a game for the promotion/demotion to happen, but if you're high diamond there's a chance you'll be promoted. I'm pretty sure they're making masters a little bigger.
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On March 06 2015 10:55 dswarm wrote:
Sooooo im diamond.... next time I log in i'm bronze? GM? Are people being shifted up, down, or is it more complicated than that?
People that were on the edge of their league may move up without playing games. People who start moving up may get promoted sooner than before the update now that the distribution of each league has changed.
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On March 06 2015 11:00 robopork wrote:Show nested quote +On March 06 2015 10:55 dswarm wrote:
Sooooo im diamond.... next time I log in i'm bronze? GM? Are people being shifted up, down, or is it more complicated than that? I'd imagine that you'll have to play a game for the promotion/demotion to happen, but if you're high diamond there's a chance you'll be promoted. I'm pretty sure they're making masters a little bigger.
Way bigger, like 2-3x bigger lol :D
Since you can't be demoted, if it's 0.8% masters then only 0.6% for example might be over the masters MMR threshold. In that case, it'd go from 0.6% to 2% overnight, and 3.33x more players would be within masters MMR
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finally got promoted to bronze
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On March 06 2015 11:03 sc2chronic wrote:
finally got promoted to bronze
Grats~
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Have they cleared all of their pre-change data though? Some of the regions don't even have it live yet. Not only that, on all of the regions where it is live, EVERYONE would have to play games to be updated. I'd expect it to take a good week for results to be shown on sites like that, but you should be able to log in, play a couple games and see results immediately when it's live in your region
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On March 06 2015 12:04 Cyro wrote:Have they cleared all of their pre-change data though? Some of the regions don't even have it live yet. Not only that, on all of the regions where it is live, EVERYONE would have to play games to be updated. I'd expect it to take a good week for results to be shown on sites like that, but you should be able to log in, play a couple games and see results immediately when it's live in your region
The initial update seems to have failed. Looks like they are trying again now.
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On March 06 2015 12:14 Za7oX wrote:Show nested quote +On March 06 2015 12:04 Cyro wrote:Have they cleared all of their pre-change data though? Some of the regions don't even have it live yet. Not only that, on all of the regions where it is live, EVERYONE would have to play games to be updated. I'd expect it to take a good week for results to be shown on sites like that, but you should be able to log in, play a couple games and see results immediately when it's live in your region The initial update seems to have failed. Looks like they are trying again now.
Source?
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On March 06 2015 12:21 Cyro wrote:Show nested quote +On March 06 2015 12:14 Za7oX wrote:On March 06 2015 12:04 Cyro wrote:Have they cleared all of their pre-change data though? Some of the regions don't even have it live yet. Not only that, on all of the regions where it is live, EVERYONE would have to play games to be updated. I'd expect it to take a good week for results to be shown on sites like that, but you should be able to log in, play a couple games and see results immediately when it's live in your region The initial update seems to have failed. Looks like they are trying again now. Source?
Ladder is down again.
https://www.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/2y3hyo/na_ladder_locked_again/
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Can't wait to get home :D
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didnt seem to do anything at masters at least..
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So is there anyone that noticed anything different? I only heard of a few gold players getting promoted to gold, but no changes in masters so far.
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On March 06 2015 16:15 KeksX wrote:
So is there anyone that noticed anything different? I only heard of a few gold players getting promoted to gold, but no changes in masters so far.
I got back into Gold on NA after two games but I think that was more because me playing random tanked my MMR cause my Zerg is meh and my Terran is atrocious compared to my Protoss and I decided to switch back to P on NA.
Will have to see what happens on EU this evening I guess, that's my main server so I'm more likely to see a difference there.
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I just realized it still says "In Progress" for EU and CN... So I think it's not working?
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