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Today I played my first match this season, the placement match. It was against a protoss.The game was pretty good. Although it was full of mistakes from my POV, I almost managed to make a comeback. Sadly, almost. It got to a baserace scenario, and I forgot to build more hidden buildings. Nevertheless, I got promoted to platinum!!!
Took me only 7 seasons to do so. First season(which was pretty long) I reached silver, after finding the Teamliquid community, and the now forgotten, 5 roach rush. Then, in season 3, I reached gold. And now, 4 seasons later, PLATINUM, the promised land, the once highest league.
Now I can say that today has been a good day.
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Grats Bunn!
Now you can buy that shirt with the Platinum symbol on it. You've earned it!
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Well done. I hope that you keep improving and make a blog a few months from now describing how you made it to Diamond.
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Learning/improving usually isnt a linear increase, but rather one with bursts, plateaus, and the occassional decline in skill. With any luck your on a burst now and have a good run to mid/high plat ..
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Well done. : ) Dont forget your progress
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Well I got demoted to gold. Wheel's gotta turn I guess.
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On April 13 2012 04:03 Apom wrote: Well I got demoted to gold. Wheel's gotta turn I guess.
I got demoted to gold as well... even though I played a plat for my placement match and beat him!
I think I'll be back soon, Might even see you around plat town =]
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Im still wondering how the system works. When i did my first placement match 2 seasons ago, i got placed into plat. i played about 10 game till i was top 10 of my division then stopped playing. Season 6 i got placed into diamond even though i lost my match? This system is weird.
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I am willing to bet that Blizzard has been testing an AI system to match players accordingly.
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On April 13 2012 04:51 FrankDaGreat wrote: Im still wondering how the system works. When i did my first placement match 2 seasons ago, i got placed into plat. i played about 10 game till i was top 10 of my division then stopped playing. Season 6 i got placed into diamond even though i lost my match? This system is weird.
The one placement match doesn't affect your MMR that much. Really the only point of the placement match is so that people who haven't been playing won't be put into a league so there's little inactive players wasting division spots.
You got promoted because your performance in past seasons qualified you for a promotion. In season promotions are harder to get, because the system needs to be absolutely sure you deserve it, because they don't want you to hop leagues so much that it becomes meaningless. The placement match is a catalyst to promote you, if you did everything else you needed to get promoted. The placement match itself doesn't change your rating much.
A good way to think about it is that every match you've played up until that point are your 4 placement matches and this 1 match is your 5th. Even if you lose it, it's not a big deal if you've been winning everything else.
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Congratulations man! Enjoy platinum
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I'm similar to you. though I got to platinum season 4 and stayed there, then got demoted last season to gold and then got repromoted to platinum in the new season!
Hope to see you around :D
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