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(Sorry if this is a repost, I couldn't find another similar thread when searching for 'league'/'leagues'
I don't know how many people have seen this, and it may be old news, but there are going to be SEVEN different Starcraft 2 leagues on battle.net 2.0
![[image loading]](http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2487/3843366465_20c8bc67de.jpg)
I am personally excited beyond belief for this. Its awesome that they broke it down into 7 leagues so you can easily see where you fit and how skilled you are compared to the rest of the world. I believe it places you in the league based on your performance, I may be mistaken though.
One cool thing about it is when you are searching for a game it only matches you with people from your own league. This is to keep the games challenging for you so you win around 50% of your games. If you get better and start to win more it will bump you up to the next league.
Starcraft will finally have progression! I cant wait to slowly start ladder climbing to try and reach the top.
Anyone else have thoughts about this?
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This sort of reminds me of iccup, playing at a specific level until you are good enough to move on; although this, coupled with the one account per game, could get rid of smurfs. Might be a nice change.
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Gold League is enough for me ^_^!
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lol. "Pro league." how pro can it really be? And what if it ended up just being, well, pros?
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very interesting.... very interesting indeed.
I love how they named the best league the "pro" league XD
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Interesting, hope we don't start at practice league that'd be retarded...and what if your like foreigner...would you only be able to hit platinum until korean or?
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Cool post, I hadn't seen this before, basically iccup ranks for them.
My big question still is... will a players "rating" ,which therefore defines this league, have separation based on Race... with the smurfing out basically it would be dumb for a zerg only to be stuck in the gold league when offracing.
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I wouldn't judge too much based on that screenshot. I think that's just a framework and a lot could definitely change in the months ahead. Also the example they gave at the panel of how you get into them was "You'll probably play something like 10 games without a league and then be assigned a league based on your performance"
On August 29 2009 09:59 StalkerSC wrote:
Interesting, hope we don't start at practice league that'd be retarded...and what if your like foreigner...would you only be able to hit platinum until korean or? Practice league is special. That's the one with special no-rush maps and a slower game speed. Players probably have to opt into that one, and then maybe it kicks you out after a while if you're winning too much 
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useless, this essentially takes iccup ranks and translate them into medals. It is better to keep iccup ranks than that medal bs. Sounds so noob.
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Yeah, according to what they said at Blizzcon, it'll throw you into one of the leagues based on your initial performance, and then you can go up and down leagues depending on how you do within your own league. Within each league, players are going to be put into 'divisions' of around 100 people, and they can grow into other leagues by placing high within their division.
I'm not entirely sure on the exact details of it, because they didn't get into it too deeply, but go check out the Battle.net 2.0 panel from Blizzcon if you're interested. (Should be on YouTube.)
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I really like how the leagues are tackled in SC2. They are really trying to make leagues not feel like a feature only for pro players. I've tried to explain below how they explained at Blizzcon the way their new leagues work in SC2. I don't have time to review the footage while I write this so the exact numbers and terminology is probably a little different. But it's just to give you an idea of the concept they are using to bring the league system to everybody, and make everybody have a sense of achievement while they play.
-Your first 10 games help to work out which league to place you in.
Lets say you are in the Silver league and there are 20,000 players in that league. Nobody wants to see that they are ranked 7,693th. It just does not really encourage you in any way.
-Each league is subdivided into brackets. Each bracket (for example) contains around 100 players. But the skill level of the brackets overlap a little (and you will see why below).
So you are Silver League - Q bracket, rank 15th. All of a sudden you go from a system where you are 7693th to 15th. All because of the subdivisions.
-As you win games in this system you advance till your 1st(or around that) in the bracket then you get a congratulations and progress to the next bracket (in this case P bracket).
When you get into the next bracket you might start at 60th (not 100th) or so. This gives you room to loose a few games without dropping straight back into the bracket below you (and this is why the overlap).
I really like where they are going with this. No matter what skill level you are at you can see yourself compared to 100 people close to you. It gives you goals that are achievable. Maybe you can't come 1st/20,000 but you can definetly come 1st/100 people at or around your skill level.
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On August 29 2009 10:15 DeCoup wrote:
-Each league is subdivided into brackets. Each bracket (for example) contains around 100 players. But the skill level of the brackets overlap a little (and you will see why below).
So you are Silver League - Q bracket, rank 15th. All of a sudden you go from a system where you are 7693th to 15th. All because of the subdivisions.
I really like where they are going with this. No matter what skill level you are at you can see yourself compared to 100 people close to you. It gives you goals that are achievable. Maybe you can't come 1st/20,000 but you can definetly come 1st/100 people at or around your skill level.
Still, there's always going to be the nagging feeling that nobody cares about any rank except Pro League, Division A/B. :p
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I really think this is one of the greater improvements with Bnet 2.0... I'm really excited for this 
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Time will tell as to how good this feature actually is, but I really like the concept of it. Nice way to keep leagues friendly for noobs yet appealing for pros. Can't wait to test it out.
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seems great it did wonders for halo2
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This "Pro League" sounds like something that I've seen before. Hmm.........
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i think its a cool idea.. but u can never be the BEST in your leagues.. soon as your the best.. u move up then your the worst... then the people that will do the best in the leagues are the avg people.. unless they have it setup that u play in a league for a full season no matter how good u are doing..
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I'm going to miss the plus and minus signs. but being something like gold-h or platinum-g sounds pretty attractive. It's gonna be a good ladder.
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EPT
