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Drlemur
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States153 Posts
April 21 2011 13:33 GMT
#1
After I got promoted (to gold, i'm noob) last night, I noticed several of my friends were also promoted yesterday. A few people on Huk's livestream also mentioned getting promoted as well.

Was it a mass promotion day? Blizzard deciding to rebalance the leagues? Did they do something special or is there something about the way the current season works after a reset that made the promotions all come at once?

Just curious.
WarEagle
Profile Joined March 2011
United States130 Posts
April 21 2011 13:41 GMT
#2
I did notice this morning that I jumped from around Rank 18 to Rank 10 without playing a game. It seems about half of the top 15 in my division got promoted to Gold, and they didn't take me with them.
killa-cam
Profile Joined April 2011
United States2 Posts
April 21 2011 14:32 GMT
#3
Wierd. I was promoted yesterday too (from silver to gold), and I have not been playing my best lately. I think I have won only like 2 of my last 10 an somehow was promoted after a win last night. Most of those games have all been against gold/plartinum, but my win % has been way down. I am interested to check the silver league I was promoted from to see if there was some sort of "mass promotion" yesterday.
ZoneofEnders
Profile Joined August 2010
Canada71 Posts
April 21 2011 14:38 GMT
#4
I have been on a winning streak for days and at 1 in my group but no promotion yet : (.
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12235 Posts
April 21 2011 15:13 GMT
#5
Surprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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DeepBlu2
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States975 Posts
April 21 2011 15:16 GMT
#6

I stayed in gold and I laddered like 40 games.



On April 22 2011 00:13 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Surprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


I stayed in gold and I laddered like 40 games.

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u gotta sk8
DeepBlu2
Profile Blog Joined April 2004
United States975 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-04-21 15:19:40
April 21 2011 15:16 GMT
#7
I stayed in plat on one account and I laddered like 40 games.


On April 22 2011 00:13 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Surprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!



+ Show Spoiler +

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u gotta sk8
Jimbooo
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
203 Posts
April 21 2011 15:17 GMT
#8
is this really mass promotion!? I must mass games!
KimJongChill
Profile Joined January 2011
United States6429 Posts
April 21 2011 15:19 GMT
#9
i got to team 2v2 plat pretty randomly...hope i can get 1v1 masters now hheehehe
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Nerski
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States1095 Posts
April 21 2011 15:21 GMT
#10
Could also be related to some sort of influx of players playing placement matches or starting the game. Since the leagues are a relative breakdown % based on MMR thresholds, unless they moved the thresholds without patching the game i'd think the former more likely then the later.
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Kokujin
Profile Joined July 2010
United States456 Posts
April 21 2011 15:22 GMT
#11
yesterday i was demoted in 4v4 games. i have a slightly negative record post reset, but my mmr should have been very very high. i think blizzard did tweak something lately.
terribly flawed that post patch, players in teams of 3 or 2 playing 4v4 are now ranked individually in 4v4
Tenks
Profile Joined April 2010
United States3104 Posts
April 21 2011 15:23 GMT
#12
I wouldn't read too much into this. Over the past few days there was a mass exodus out of my diamond ladder. Luckily that made me #1 by default lol.
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SDream
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Brazil896 Posts
April 21 2011 15:23 GMT
#13
On April 22 2011 00:13 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Surprise!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


You know something!! Spit it!!
Chinchillin
Profile Joined February 2011
United States259 Posts
April 21 2011 15:24 GMT
#14
Lol ya my friend got promoted yesterday too... odd
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Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12235 Posts
April 21 2011 15:24 GMT
#15
On April 22 2011 00:21 Nerski wrote:
Could also be related to some sort of influx of players playing placement matches or starting the game. Since the leagues are a relative breakdown % based on MMR thresholds, unless they moved the thresholds without patching the game i'd think the former more likely then the later.


They have the ability to do this (change the thresholds without a patch) and this is basically what happened. I don't know how much more I can say on that but I'm surprised that people were able to pick up on it so quickly.
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MBH
Profile Joined January 2011
Ireland796 Posts
April 21 2011 15:25 GMT
#16
Yeah, you busted Blizzard, today is promotion day!

Also, put a regular version of SC2 under your pillow and when you wake up tomorrow, you'll find a brand new collectors edition with a already included GM account!

Huray!!!
pinnacle
Profile Joined November 2010
United States86 Posts
April 21 2011 15:25 GMT
#17
I just got promoted yesterday.
meep
Profile Blog Joined August 2009
United States1699 Posts
April 21 2011 15:26 GMT
#18
Hmm I'm tempted to log on and check my rank now...
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kAisc2
Profile Joined May 2010
United Kingdom85 Posts
April 21 2011 15:28 GMT
#19
i think your right wednesday must be there new promotion day as alot of people in my league got protmoted also ;D
bentski
Profile Joined July 2010
Canada31 Posts
April 21 2011 15:29 GMT
#20
On April 22 2011 00:24 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Show nested quote +
On April 22 2011 00:21 Nerski wrote:
Could also be related to some sort of influx of players playing placement matches or starting the game. Since the leagues are a relative breakdown % based on MMR thresholds, unless they moved the thresholds without patching the game i'd think the former more likely then the later.


They have the ability to do this (change the thresholds without a patch) and this is basically what happened. I don't know how much more I can say on that but I'm surprised that people were able to pick up on it so quickly.


Hmm interesting...

Excalibur, can you tell us which leagues had their thresholds changed? I assume it's mostly just the lower leagues, since sc2ranks.com still shows like %40 Bronze in NA, which is probably a lot higher than it should be... while the middle leagues are somewhat underrepresented.

I've been trying to get into Masters since the patch, but I've noticed it went from like 6% to 3.5% over the past few weeks, so I assume it is also still overrepresented... did they push the mmr threshold for Masters up even more?
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