• Log InLog In
  • Register
Liquid`
Team Liquid Liquipedia
EDT 11:32
CEST 17:32
KST 00:32
  • 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
Serral wins EWC 20258Tournament Spotlight: FEL Cracow 20259Power Rank - Esports World Cup 202580RSL Season 1 - Final Week9[ASL19] Finals Recap: Standing Tall15
Community News
[BSL 2025] H2 - Team Wars, Weeklies & SB Ladder1EWC 2025 - Replay Pack2Google Play ASL (Season 20) Announced26BSL Team Wars - Bonyth, Dewalt, Hawk & Sziky teams10Weekly Cups (July 14-20): Final Check-up0
StarCraft 2
General
Power Rank - Esports World Cup 2025 Greatest Players of All Time: 2025 Update Serral wins EWC 2025 EWC 2025 - Replay Pack #1: Maru - Greatest Players of All Time
Tourneys
TaeJa vs Creator Bo7 SC Evo Showmatch FEL Cracov 2025 (July 27) - $10,000 live event Esports World Cup 2025 $25,000 Streamerzone StarCraft Pro Series announced $5,000 WardiTV Summer Championship 2025
Strategy
How did i lose this ZvP, whats the proper response
Custom Maps
External Content
Mutation # 484 Magnetic Pull Mutation #239 Bad Weather Mutation # 483 Kill Bot Wars Mutation # 482 Wheel of Misfortune
Brood War
General
BW General Discussion BGH Auto Balance -> http://bghmmr.eu/ Afreeca app available on Samsung smart TV [BSL 2025] H2 - Team Wars, Weeklies & SB Ladder Google Play ASL (Season 20) Announced
Tourneys
[Megathread] Daily Proleagues [BSL20] Non-Korean Championship 4x BSL + 4x China CSL Xiamen International Invitational [CSLPRO] It's CSLAN Season! - Last Chance
Strategy
Does 1 second matter in StarCraft? Simple Questions, Simple Answers [G] Mineral Boosting
Other Games
General Games
Stormgate/Frost Giant Megathread Nintendo Switch Thread Total Annihilation Server - TAForever [MMORPG] Tree of Savior (Successor of Ragnarok) Path of Exile
Dota 2
Official 'what is Dota anymore' discussion
League of Legends
How many questions are in the Publix survey?
Heroes of the Storm
Simple Questions, Simple Answers Heroes of the Storm 2.0
Hearthstone
Heroes of StarCraft mini-set
TL Mafia
TL Mafia Community Thread Vanilla Mini Mafia
Community
General
US Politics Mega-thread Russo-Ukrainian War Thread UK Politics Mega-thread Stop Killing Games - European Citizens Initiative Things Aren’t Peaceful in Palestine
Fan Clubs
INnoVation Fan Club SKT1 Classic Fan Club!
Media & Entertainment
Anime Discussion Thread [\m/] Heavy Metal Thread Movie Discussion! [Manga] One Piece Korean Music Discussion
Sports
2024 - 2025 Football Thread Formula 1 Discussion TeamLiquid Health and Fitness Initiative For 2023 NBA General Discussion
World Cup 2022
Tech Support
Gtx660 graphics card replacement Installation of Windows 10 suck at "just a moment" Computer Build, Upgrade & Buying Resource Thread
TL Community
TeamLiquid Team Shirt On Sale The Automated Ban List
Blogs
Ping To Win? Pings And Their…
TrAiDoS
momentary artworks from des…
tankgirl
from making sc maps to makin…
Husyelt
StarCraft improvement
iopq
Socialism Anyone?
GreenHorizons
Eight Anniversary as a TL…
Mizenhauer
Customize Sidebar...

Website Feedback

Closed Threads



Active: 687 users

TSL Ladder Standings - Page 49

Forum Index > TSL2 Forum
Post a Reply
Prev 1 47 48 49 50 51 176 Next
Cedstick
Profile Blog Joined November 2009
Canada3336 Posts
December 01 2009 23:06 GMT
#961
On December 02 2009 07:23 Straylight wrote:

Stop making Canada look BM. Gosh.
"What does Rivington do when he's not commentating?" "Drool." ~ Categorist
StorrZerg
Profile Blog Joined February 2008
United States13919 Posts
December 01 2009 23:10 GMT
#962
poor Canada right?
Hwaseung Oz fan for life. Swing out, always swing out.
Scaramanga
Profile Blog Joined March 2008
Australia8090 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-01 23:17:54
December 01 2009 23:15 GMT
#963
Man the ladder is how it is, if kwark is smart enough to find a loophole then good for him
Oh man looking through some peoples game lists looking at idra's is so amazing, its all koreans
Idra will take this easily i think
Loda talked about the fun counter, it's AdmiralBulldog on his natures prophet
Glaucus
Profile Joined June 2009
479 Posts
December 01 2009 23:17 GMT
#964
Exploiting the ladder system is part of the game. As long as you don't break the rules it's allowed.

It's the weakness of ladder qualification and iccup rank.
OneOther
Profile Blog Joined August 2004
United States10774 Posts
December 01 2009 23:21 GMT
#965
all right gentlemen, time to start playing your clanmates who you know can beat 9 out of 10 times. find lower ranks and bash them for 1300 points. repeat and you will climb 3 ranks.

yes it's within the ladder rules but i just think it's so...dumb. this is one thing i do not like about ladder qualification systems. if one person starts doing it, i don't see why everybody else wouldn't. the laddeing process would become stupid.
arb
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Noobville17921 Posts
December 01 2009 23:28 GMT
#966
On December 02 2009 00:44 SirGlinG wrote:
I'd rather do this at the end of the ladder, but it's still interesting!

Top 3 fighters for the first spot, their weakest mu's.
Ret ZvZ |24-15 | 61.5%
Idra TvT |36-21 | 63.2%
F91 ZvZ |21-7 | 75%

+ Show Spoiler +
F91 has too few played games on A-, Ret has played foreigners, Idra has played more games than the rest of them.

Well you do know that most of the foreigners(non chinese white-ra/ret/idra/ not included) are capable of low A- /B+ at best, but playing each other and cheesing constantly has given so many people A- with good stats/points its not funny.
or playing your team mates in some cases
Artillery spawned from the forges of Hell
grobo
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Japan6199 Posts
December 01 2009 23:31 GMT
#967
On December 02 2009 08:21 OneOther wrote:
all right gentlemen, time to start playing your clanmates who you know can beat 9 out of 10 times. find lower ranks and bash them for 1300 points. repeat and you will climb 3 ranks.

yes it's within the ladder rules but i just think it's so...dumb. this is one thing i do not like about ladder qualification systems. if one person starts doing it, i don't see why everybody else wouldn't. the laddeing process would become stupid.


If they wanted to, they would.

The thing is he's not hurting anyone except himself, in the end when he has to face A/A- players in the qualification rounds we all know how that's gonna end, so i don't see what the problem is.

Nobody was complaining when mondragon played only foreigners last TSL, people do what they believe they have to do in order to qualify and there is nothing wrong with that.
We make signature, then defense it.
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42659 Posts
Last Edited: 2009-12-01 23:35:51
December 01 2009 23:32 GMT
#968
On December 02 2009 08:21 OneOther wrote:
all right gentlemen, time to start playing your clanmates who you know can beat 9 out of 10 times. find lower ranks and bash them for 1300 points. repeat and you will climb 3 ranks.

yes it's within the ladder rules but i just think it's so...dumb. this is one thing i do not like about ladder qualification systems. if one person starts doing it, i don't see why everybody else wouldn't. the laddeing process would become stupid.

30 minutes before I played AoN.Deanotic at B+ vs B Lzgamer played him, at B+ vs B just as I did. Deanotic 2-0ed Lzgamer.
It's not that I'm doing something others aren't or that I'm starting something. It's that my PvZ was strong enough to get the 2:1 win ratio required to make points doing it. If you think I had an easy road feel free to try and walk it. Tell me how that goes.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
Liquid`Drone
Profile Joined September 2002
Norway28665 Posts
December 01 2009 23:35 GMT
#969
On December 02 2009 08:31 grobo wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2009 08:21 OneOther wrote:
all right gentlemen, time to start playing your clanmates who you know can beat 9 out of 10 times. find lower ranks and bash them for 1300 points. repeat and you will climb 3 ranks.

yes it's within the ladder rules but i just think it's so...dumb. this is one thing i do not like about ladder qualification systems. if one person starts doing it, i don't see why everybody else wouldn't. the laddeing process would become stupid.


If they wanted to, they would.

The thing is he's not hurting anyone except himself, in the end when he has to face A/A- players in the qualification rounds we all know how that's gonna end, so i don't see what the problem is.

Nobody was complaining when mondragon played only foreigners last TSL, people do what they believe they have to do in order to qualify and there is nothing wrong with that.


he is hurting #49 in the ladder pretty damn severly.....
Moderator
grobo
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Japan6199 Posts
December 01 2009 23:42 GMT
#970
On December 02 2009 08:35 Liquid`Drone wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2009 08:31 grobo wrote:
On December 02 2009 08:21 OneOther wrote:
all right gentlemen, time to start playing your clanmates who you know can beat 9 out of 10 times. find lower ranks and bash them for 1300 points. repeat and you will climb 3 ranks.

yes it's within the ladder rules but i just think it's so...dumb. this is one thing i do not like about ladder qualification systems. if one person starts doing it, i don't see why everybody else wouldn't. the laddeing process would become stupid.


If they wanted to, they would.

The thing is he's not hurting anyone except himself, in the end when he has to face A/A- players in the qualification rounds we all know how that's gonna end, so i don't see what the problem is.

Nobody was complaining when mondragon played only foreigners last TSL, people do what they believe they have to do in order to qualify and there is nothing wrong with that.


he is hurting #49 in the ladder pretty damn severly.....


Well that's true, but he could use the same tactics as Kwark, obviously playing straight up and not picking your players would be the most fair way to decide the top 48 but since there's nothing against it in the rules i don't see why everyone is giving him so much shit.
We make signature, then defense it.
Xeris
Profile Blog Joined July 2005
Iran17695 Posts
December 01 2009 23:44 GMT
#971
On December 02 2009 08:32 KwarK wrote:
Show nested quote +
On December 02 2009 08:21 OneOther wrote:
all right gentlemen, time to start playing your clanmates who you know can beat 9 out of 10 times. find lower ranks and bash them for 1300 points. repeat and you will climb 3 ranks.

yes it's within the ladder rules but i just think it's so...dumb. this is one thing i do not like about ladder qualification systems. if one person starts doing it, i don't see why everybody else wouldn't. the laddeing process would become stupid.

30 minutes before I played AoN.Deanotic at B+ vs B Lzgamer played him, at B+ vs B just as I did. Deanotic 2-0ed Lzgamer.
It's not that I'm doing something others aren't or that I'm starting something. It's that my PvZ was strong enough to get the 2:1 win ratio required to make points doing it. If you think I had an easy road feel free to try and walk it. Tell me how that goes.


Just because you're playing "real" games with your teammates doesn't change the fact that it looks like abuse. And even if you think you're actually playing games, there is a psychological factor involved, it goes like this "hey I'm playing KwarK, I know he's better than me and he's playing TSL and I'm not... if he continually beats me he might qualify" , such a thought process might lead him to play worse than he normally would and increase his likelihood of losing to you... making your games practically like getting free wins.
twitter.com/xerislight -- follow me~~
dranjam
Profile Joined May 2008
Poland198 Posts
December 01 2009 23:54 GMT
#972
Lol what are you people so angry about? That some Kwark will make it thru the ladder? And what? He wins 1000000 $$$ ? It's only top players that will get fame and/or money, so don't worry, the weaklings will be eliminated, and if not in this stage than in the next one. So Kwark is abusing ladder, and you are going thru everyone's playlists, I dunno which is more pathetic in this case. And instead of enjoying a great event, that TSL2 is, we discuss this bullshit.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight with you, then you win.
KwarK
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States42659 Posts
December 01 2009 23:57 GMT
#973
I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone outside those who are 'guaranteed' a spot such as Idra and Ret who hasn't played lower ranks (as I said, lzgamer played the same guy I did with the same rank I had half an hour before I did) and avoided dangerous competition. Anyone in Ladder A-B in the past week will have had direct experience with this, the players with worse records getting spammed and the players with better records struggling to get a game. People with weak matchups are avoiding playing them against top level players and people are refusing to play maps they dislike. If you're not going to have an invitational then this is the system.
Anyone who thinks it's especially easy can try to do it. Of course, I expect everyone in the top 100 right now could get A- the way I did but when I look down that list there are almost no names I don't recognise, no names that would seem out of place in a competition between decent foreigners. At present, the only difference between me and the vast majority of players below me is that I have played a lot more games.
ModeratorThe angels have the phone box
integral
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
United States3156 Posts
December 01 2009 23:57 GMT
#974
Even though I can't wholeheartedly support KwarK's qualification strategy, either, it's definitely not against the rules. I cheer for him a little bit like I cheered for the swimmer from that african country in the olympics. We both have 120 apm, I feel like I can relate to him. Realistically no one except a very select group of players has a legitimate shot of placing in the money, making this primarily a tournament for fun. All of these players can get significantly higher than KwarK currently is on the ladder. If it's proved that by cheesing/downranking someone can get significantly higher on the ladder than where KwarK already is, then I will be more concerned about the quality of the games being played in TSL. As it stands, I'm not worried at all.
eXigent.
Profile Blog Joined February 2007
Canada2419 Posts
December 02 2009 00:03 GMT
#975
Reason is back out of retirement just to play TSL2! Pretty cool to see him come back after being gone for quite a while and still be able to beat top players. He took games from G5, Chosen and Fenix (impressive)


http://www.iccup.com/gamingprofile/TSL-ReasoN.html
s.a.y
Profile Blog Joined October 2007
Croatia3840 Posts
December 02 2009 00:03 GMT
#976
On December 02 2009 08:57 KwarK wrote:
I think you'd be hard pressed to find anyone outside those who are 'guaranteed' a spot such as Idra and Ret who hasn't played lower ranks (as I said, lzgamer played the same guy I did with the same rank I had half an hour before I did) and avoided dangerous competition. Anyone in Ladder A-B in the past week will have had direct experience with this, the players with worse records getting spammed and the players with better records struggling to get a game. People with weak matchups are avoiding playing them against top level players and people are refusing to play maps they dislike. If you're not going to have an invitational then this is the system.
Anyone who thinks it's especially easy can try to do it. Of course, I expect everyone in the top 100 right now could get A- the way I did but when I look down that list there are almost no names I don't recognise, no names that would seem out of place in a competition between decent foreigners. At present, the only difference between me and the vast majority of players below me is that I have played a lot more games.


either way, with this kind of play, you might barely squeeze into Q3 round, where you will be eliminated. that's the way I see it, your game picking will leave a better player a spot lower.

I wish you luck in your legal ladder abuse. at least you are not denying it.
I am not good with quotes
aqui
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
Germany1023 Posts
December 02 2009 00:03 GMT
#977
gogo kwark! ignore the haters!
dranjam
Profile Joined May 2008
Poland198 Posts
December 02 2009 00:07 GMT
#978
gogog kwark!
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight with you, then you win.
Hot_Bid
Profile Blog Joined October 2003
Braavos36375 Posts
December 02 2009 00:19 GMT
#979
On December 02 2009 08:57 integral wrote:
Even though I can't wholeheartedly support KwarK's qualification strategy, either, it's definitely not against the rules. I cheer for him a little bit like I cheered for the swimmer from that african country in the olympics. We both have 120 apm, I feel like I can relate to him. Realistically no one except a very select group of players has a legitimate shot of placing in the money, making this primarily a tournament for fun. All of these players can get significantly higher than KwarK currently is on the ladder. If it's proved that by cheesing/downranking someone can get significantly higher on the ladder than where KwarK already is, then I will be more concerned about the quality of the games being played in TSL. As it stands, I'm not worried at all.

ICCup Rules are as follows:
Playing against the same person too many times:
You are not allowed to play more than:
6 games between D- and D+
9 Games between C- and C+
12 Games between B- and B+
A- and Olympic — No more than 1000 points gained from 1 player. That could be as little as 8 games in a row, or it could potentially be 30-40 so long as 1 player doesn't gain more than 1000 points in total. From A- and higher rank, it is hard to find players also it is hard to gain points if game was win and loss together. ex) A- vs A- winner gets 130 pts, but loser will get -140 pts. one win and loss each player it's total -10 points for the player. This rule give more oppotunity for higher rank players.

Per day vs. same person(or Team). However some may think that they could play 6 games today 6 tomorrow (D ranks) and so on but nothing more wrong. Those cases will be handled separately and most of the times probably penalized since you can abuse your way into higher ranks with this method. Also cases of games played vs. same friends across bigger periods of time will be evaluated individually. So if you feel like training with friends and gaining some rank with it you should just switch to melee. Also its forbidden to play vs. people that have the same IP as you(LAN houses etc.), here number of consecutive games vs that person won't even mather.
The punishment for breaking this rulle is points penalty, clearstats or ban depending on how many games were played.

I bolded the relevant portion.

Even though you are technically allowed to 12-0 someone every 24 hours (the period of 6/9/12 allowable games is 24 hours), you can't just do this infinitely. Going 200-0 vs the same guy over a few months is still abuse (read the bolded portion).

Thus, ICCup (and TSL) is allowed to review accounts on a case-by-case basis to determine whether they have abused. If Player 1 plays Player 2 48 times over 10 days @ B rank, going 48-0, this is technically "allowed" under the 12 games per day, but we can still DQ for abuse. The bolded part up there allows for a more flexible evaluation standard.
@Hot_Bid on Twitter - ESPORTS life since 2010 - http://i.imgur.com/U2psw.png
Glaucus
Profile Joined June 2009
479 Posts
December 02 2009 00:23 GMT
#980
On December 02 2009 08:21 OneOther wrote:
i just think it's so...dumb. this is one thing i do not like about ladder qualification systems. if one person starts doing it, i don't see why everybody else wouldn't. the laddeing process would become stupid.


Don't call it dumb. TL staff made a good decision. New players can qualify and make a name for themselves thanks to a ladder. Not to mention it's disrespectful to TL staff.
Prev 1 47 48 49 50 51 176 Next
Please log in or register to reply.
Live Events Refresh
Next event in 18h 28m
[ Submit Event ]
Live Streams
Refresh
StarCraft 2
mouzHeroMarine 438
mcanning 297
Rex 121
ForJumy 34
StarCraft: Brood War
Bisu 1563
Mini 1523
Shuttle 1480
Barracks 954
EffOrt 821
Soma 809
Stork 791
Nal_rA 443
Larva 375
ZerO 303
[ Show more ]
Snow 283
Hyun 279
ToSsGirL 202
Rush 176
Mind 153
Killer 146
yabsab 130
Sharp 100
Movie 68
sas.Sziky 57
soO 49
sSak 34
sorry 33
[sc1f]eonzerg 30
scan(afreeca) 29
Free 27
Terrorterran 16
JulyZerg 15
Shinee 9
ivOry 3
eros_byul 0
Dota 2
Gorgc7124
qojqva4159
XcaliburYe296
League of Legends
Dendi840
Counter-Strike
fl0m2903
ScreaM1806
olofmeister1100
sgares438
markeloff436
flusha245
oskar191
edward37
Other Games
singsing1747
hiko1170
crisheroes428
Lowko309
Trikslyr44
ZerO(Twitch)20
Organizations
StarCraft 2
Blizzard YouTube
StarCraft: Brood War
BSLTrovo
sctven
[ Show 18 non-featured ]
StarCraft 2
• Berry_CruncH113
• davetesta42
• intothetv
• sooper7s
• Migwel
• AfreecaTV YouTube
• LaughNgamezSOOP
• IndyKCrew
• Kozan
StarCraft: Brood War
• STPLYoutube
• ZZZeroYoutube
• BSLYoutube
Dota 2
• C_a_k_e 5158
• WagamamaTV614
League of Legends
• Nemesis5308
• Jankos1174
• TFBlade747
Other Games
• Shiphtur161
Upcoming Events
Sparkling Tuna Cup
18h 28m
WardiTV European League
1d
PiGosaur Monday
1d 8h
uThermal 2v2 Circuit
2 days
The PondCast
2 days
Replay Cast
3 days
Korean StarCraft League
4 days
CranKy Ducklings
4 days
Online Event
5 days
Sparkling Tuna Cup
5 days
Liquipedia Results

Completed

BSL 20 Non-Korean Championship
FEL Cracow 2025
Underdog Cup #2

Ongoing

Copa Latinoamericana 4
Jiahua Invitational
BSL 20 Team Wars
CC Div. A S7
IEM Cologne 2025
FISSURE Playground #1
BLAST.tv Austin Major 2025
ESL Impact League Season 7
IEM Dallas 2025
PGL Astana 2025
Asian Champions League '25

Upcoming

BSL 21 Qualifiers
ASL Season 20: Qualifier #1
ASL Season 20: Qualifier #2
ASL Season 20
CSLPRO Chat StarLAN 3
BSL Season 21
RSL Revival: Season 2
Maestros of the Game
SEL Season 2 Championship
WardiTV Summer 2025
uThermal 2v2 Main Event
HCC Europe
ESL Pro League S22
StarSeries Fall 2025
FISSURE Playground #2
BLAST Open Fall 2025
BLAST Open Fall Qual
Esports World Cup 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall 2025
BLAST Bounty Fall Qual
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 © 2025 TLnet. All Rights Reserved.