EPTGrandmaster League Info Thread - Page 2
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dacthehork
United States2000 Posts
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brotosterone
United States260 Posts
On April 12 2011 09:09 Excalibur_Z wrote: If all of the top 200 players who have been preselected all play their games right when the league goes live, they will stay in that league for the entire season regardless of performance, as long as they are able to keep their bonus pool below 270. Basically this is to showcase the top 200 players on the server but the activity requirement is there to keep the league from stagnating. If it were just the top 200 then the bottom ~70-80ish slots would probably be fluctuating constantly. Ughh I hate that. So silly... | ||
Excalibur_Z
United States12224 Posts
On April 12 2011 09:15 GenesisX wrote: :O. Theres an idea... when does it officially come out in NA? I'm looking at these players' match histories and they all have a win today. You may have to play and win, and not just play a single game and get promoted regardless of the result. I've clarified the OP to this effect. | ||
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Aurdon
United States2007 Posts
These are the players who finished the best after a season and it gives us a way to track their progress in the next season. | ||
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MCDayC
United Kingdom14464 Posts
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Sanguinarius
United States3427 Posts
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Snoman
Canada191 Posts
Gonna be neat to check out, have something else for players to follow, a consolidated league for players that spectators like to watch. | ||
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Piy
Scotland3152 Posts
wut? Oh wait, you can still just play them anyway because of MMR right? like if a masters player ends up with the highest MMR in the region he'll be playing the top of GM all the time, right? I don't understand the Blizzard ladder system at all  Points that don't matter, leagues that don't matter, laddering takes forever, and the points that do matter are hidden and have to be figured out independently..Oh well, as long as this doesn't prevent players from playing on multiple servers or playing the best if they are outside of GM I guess it's alright..Just kind of pointless lol | ||
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lim1017
Canada1278 Posts
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S.O.L.I.D.
United States792 Posts
On April 12 2011 09:10 Bean54 wrote: So the top players in the world wouldnt be able to achieve grandmaster? That seems kinda dumb if they can't make it a moving league like the others. Thats basically the equivalent of a 2 week season with like a 3 month lockout period. What are you talking about? The top players in the world will be the ones IN grandmaster. | ||
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Barbiero
Brazil5259 Posts
On April 12 2011 09:10 Bean54 wrote: So the top players in the world wouldnt be able to achieve grandmaster? That seems kinda dumb if they can't make it a moving league like the others. Thats basically the equivalent of a 2 week season with like a 3 month lockout period. Except the "season" lasted almost eight months, and started when the game came. Basically, if you want to achieve GM, you'll have to play well so you can get into it next season. Don't worry, in theory seasons should be much shorter now. | ||
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RyanRushia
United States2748 Posts
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Excalibur_Z
United States12224 Posts
On April 12 2011 09:22 Sanguinarius wrote: I wonder if everyone in GM league is given the same consistent MMR, so people cant just slack off at the bottom of GM league and lower their MMR to win games against mid masters. It would lower their bonus pool so they dont get kicked out. My guess would be (and I know SDream believes this to be the case) that GM just has a really high point offset, so that if you tank your MMR, your adjusted points will be so much higher than your MMR that you will always be favored, making it harder to spend your bonus pool and therefore remain active. I presume Blizzard has already thought of this, but who knows, maybe we'll see at least one GM player experiment with this and see if this is a possible way to cheat the system =) | ||
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Jayme
United States5866 Posts
On April 12 2011 09:20 MCDayC wrote: As long as the seasons are much shorter from now on (two months) it wouldn't be bad having the top 200 fixed. It is not meant to be a measure of absolute skill but more as a display of the top players. So, yeah, as long as the seasons remain short and crisp, this should be pretty cool. Er yea but what if those aren't the top players anymore? A lot can change in 2-3 months. | ||
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Naughty
United States114 Posts
On April 12 2011 09:02 tnud wrote: Yea.. the rules have always seemed kinda iffy to me. The top 200 REAL players won't be in grandmasters due to the drop out conditions imho. You can drop down to diamond MMR and still be in grandmasters as long as you keep playing lol You sure thats how it works? would a player not get demoted of he keeps losing to people with a lower MMR? I Though the drop out conditions where to make sure the grandmasters are active, not in place so much as to guarantee there placement as long as they keep playing. | ||
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venge1155
United States174 Posts
It seems some of your info is off a bit. | ||
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noxn
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dtz
5834 Posts
This GM league is the hall of fame for best performers of season 1. Those who get top 200 MMR during season 2 will get enshinred in season 3. anyway, is there a point cut/subtraction from master to grandmaster? and vice versa if you get dropped from grandmaster to master on related note My second thought - Wow even more hurdles for players if they want to get to the top of GM. For e.g if they ever fall out of GM and decide to start playing again, they have to wait a week to get promoted to GM(not sure about this). Then they lose all their points and have to start again climbing again from 200+. Not cool at all the "XP Decay" feels like too big of a obligation/commitment if you wanna maintain GM status I believe the first point is not true. The only way you can be repromoted is to wait until someone drops out and your bonus pool to be below the limit. The 2nd point is probably related to my question above. | ||
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Stosh
United States32 Posts
On April 12 2011 09:09 Excalibur_Z wrote: If it were just the top 200 then the bottom ~70-80ish slots would probably be fluctuating constantly. What exactly is the problem with having a fluctuating bottom half of the league? For the most part, the general public is only going to be focused on the top half of the league to see who the "best players" are. Besides the players themselves, who is going to care if somebody is ranked 198 or 157? In my opinion people would pay more attention to the bottom half of the league if you had to fight to survive. It would be far more interesting to me to track a player to see if he remained in the top 200, rather then vacillating between rank 180 and 200. | ||
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StreetWise
United States594 Posts
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