Season 5 is here

Arciphel

Where did season 4 go?

Just played my placement match and still in Silver, I suppose it's an improvement on FOREVER BRONZE but not by much. My aim is that I am going to get into Gold this Season by hell or high water!


Best of luck to everyone in Season 5

Foxhole Norman

Just did my placement match, and lost due to absolutely horrible marine control but still managed to break Platinum

My season 4 goal was successful!

Arciphel

Well done Foxhole - I hope with a name like that that you bunker rush!

Tenger

Bugger. Was night shift last night. Was hoping for another day so I could try break into top 8 in my division.

Oh well time to start over! Placement to be played tomorrow morning.


EDIT: Placement won, beat a silver Toss without any hassle. (Thank you Feanor/Orizio, racing to max meant I had a lot more stuff than him)
Still stuck in Bronze. However have beaten a few silver over the last few days so hopefully my MMR has gone up.

IRL_Sinister

So, yeah, I just cheesed a Toss on NA to get back to Masters and then came onto EU and tried to actually macro against Toss to get that 3 gate VR all-in done to me three times in a row

Orizio

Still mother****ing platinum. Progress is incremental, I make the same mistakes over again.

godspal

Placed... DIAMOND MOFOS! That was my aim; to make Diamond before the new year and masters before HoTS comes out! Masters here I come!

Tenger

Tenger wrote: »

EDIT: Placement won, beat a silver Toss without any hassle. (Thank you Feanor/Orizio, racing to max meant I had a lot more stuff than him)
Still stuck in Bronze. However have beaten a few silver over the last few days so hopefully my MMR has gone up.

After a ****e streak of losses (9!) my MMR is back where it belongs!!!

Bugger those cheesing Protoss/zerg players!

Khazidhea

If you dont play for a season you MMR will reset and you have to do 5 placement matches again, it's like having a completely new account. So, I'm a masters player but the MMR was reset and I am playing this gold guy Blaziken.

I dont have anything against him, but that thing in the end actually cracked me up. Basically what happened is I defend his attack, then I counter, crush his defenses and as he about to leave the game he accuses me of being a hacker. A mineral hacker.

I found the way he says it funny:






Oh and btw I am trying to make a youtube tutorial on how to get out of bronze as terran, will try to finish it before the new year

Orizio

Khaz could you also make tutorials of (a) getting Terrans out of Platinum and into Masters and (b) how to not die to Toss OPness in TvP, k thanks happy christmas.

IRL_Sinister

Khazidhea wrote: »

If you dont play for a season you MMR will reset and you have to do 5 placement matches again, it's like having a completely new account. So, I'm a masters player but the MMR was reset and I am playing this gold guy Blaziken.

I dont have anything against him, but that thing in the end actually cracked me up. Basically what happened is I defend his attack, then I counter, crush his defenses and as he about to leave the game he accuses me of being a hacker. A mineral hacker.

I found the way he says it funny:






Oh and btw I am trying to make a youtube tutorial on how to get out of bronze as terran, will try to finish it before the new year

omfg, Khaz, are you actively playing on NA because my practice partners there are limited to say the least. I'll PM you my RealID if you're up for praaaaaaaactice.

Other than that, gz, but that's pretty standard shenanigans on NA. And, yes, the general standard of ladder is just that low in comparison to EU. It's like a serious morale boost playing on NA hahahahah

Khazidhea

I wouldnt label not playing for 2 seasons as "actively"

Making this tutorial is hard >_< But I'm trying to make it good.

I will see about the plat tutorial, I can certainly share my build and give some insight on scouting.

Jhax

played my placement and got into platinum which was nice. Got from bronze to platinum in one season woohoo.... :P People in platinum seem to be better than they used to be, or it might be me getting bad from playing all those bronze newbes. Either way, I have some work to do to get back into diamond

Sniipe

Bronze rank 14 (terran only) I haven't played the game since it came out really. Anyone interested in playing against me - who is at my level?

Sniipe 465

Jhax

Top 8 in my Platinum division, hoping to get diamond before I go back to college which seems fairly easy to do.

IRL_Sinister

Usual shenanigans for me:








Followed by 2 1/4 final appearances in z33k Dailies in 1 week.

Going well I'd say!

Foxhole Norman

Practiced for 7 hours today in an internet cafe in Cork City. Got 21 games in of which I won 15 and lost 6. Went from rank 89 in Plat to 8th. Was quite happy with today's work and I started a new strategy for Zerg too. Going to go in again for another few hours in the next few days.

Vickhoff

Played and lost my placement, got masters this season aswell though.

dardoz

I'm almost too embarrassed to reply to this since none of you are even as low as gold. I've played about 150 games since I got sc2 a couple of months ago and I'm still a total noob. I do win about 75% of matches now in bronze though, only really losing the 6 pools or other bad scouting related illnesses

I'm playing as much 2v2 as 1v1 though, so please add me guys so I've a few more people to play with over skype

My id is kRoNic.214

Tenger

dardoz wrote: »

I'm almost too embarrassed to reply to this since none of you are even as low as gold. I've played about 150 games since I got sc2 a couple of months ago and I'm still a total noob.........

Season 5 see's me still in Bronze, so don't be embarassed.

I even got myself a nice tee shirt declaring my inability to get a decent win rate in SCII.

http://www.jinx.com/p/starcraft_ii_bronze_league_premium_tee.html?catid=&cs=1&csd=&preview=1&s=starcraft

Sniipe

dardoz wrote: »

I'm almost too embarrassed to reply to this since none of you are even as low as gold.

dude scroll up till you see my post. I'll add you now

dardoz

I tried adding you Sniipe, but it says you don't exist. You sure 465 is your id??

IRL_Sinister

21-9 so far!

Tenger

dardoz wrote: »

I tried adding you Sniipe, but it says you don't exist. You sure 465 is your id??

Same with me

Bramble 974

Sniipe

dardoz wrote: »

I tried adding you Sniipe, but it says you don't exist. You sure 465 is your id??

Tenger wrote: »

Same with me

Bramble 974

I'll have another look when I get home from work... I tried to find it on battle.net but didn't see it there... though I would.

Found it on the website: I'm Sniipe 210 (sorry for the confusion)

IRL_Sinister

You can find it in game by hovering over your portrait with the mouse cursor.

Grimebox

Got placed in Plat again. I thought I would back in Diamond since I was beating them regularly at the end of season 4. It may say Plat, but I am Diamond at heart

Sniipe

IRL_Sinister wrote: »

You can find it in game by hovering over your portrait with the mouse cursor.

I didn't realise that was where the code was gotten from. I thought it was the number beside your name... turns out that number changes every so often... what is that number for? Sniipe 210 is my number apparently.

I'm still bronze in 1v1 but placed 8th in silver on 2v2... how odd!

Tenger

Sniipe wrote: »

I'm still bronze in 1v1 but placed 8th in silver on 2v2... how odd!

Normal on B.net.

I have played a few people who were bronze/silver or even silver/plat. (1v1/2v2)

I think it is to do with the level of competitiveness in the different modes.
Only played 2-3 2v2's myself. Would love to try more but need a stable play pattern and/or better laptop!!

IRL_Sinister

That is all. This is what happens when I actually get a solid build down vs Protoss

Tenger

Funny thought;

Was looking at sc2ranks.com and noticed that the No.1 Bronze in Europe is at 1142 points. I am at 358 points (34 wins) and mainly playing Silver players at the moment. (4th in my division,only a win from top spot though)

Doesn't seem to make sense, with so many points should he not get promoted. I know points do not get you promoted and I realise that his win rate may not be over 50/50 but having 3 times my points at this point in the season seems an indicator of ability/play level.

Grimebox

Tenger wrote: »

Funny thought;

Was looking at sc2ranks.com and noticed that the No.1 Bronze in Europe is at 1142 points. I am at 358 points (34 wins) and mainly playing Silver players at the moment. (4th in my division,only a win from top spot though)

Doesn't seem to make sense, with so many points should he not get promoted. I know points do not get you promoted and I realise that his win rate may not be over 50/50 but having 3 times my points at this point in the season seems an indicator of ability/play level.

As far as I know your points will be constantly rising due to the bonus pool. His high amount of points just proves he's been in the bronze league for a long time. I'm fairly sure you get given a new amount of points when you get promoted/demoted so your points won't be relevant to his.

Tenger

Are you sure?

I assumed that points were reset at season start. (Mine certainly were, hence the 358 total) Now unless that player is playing 4 times as much as me and still losing 50%...

F69Baal

so i think i played 1 game since november in 1v1 due to WCG and so I got to play my signel placement.

I randomed as usual and got the best MU ever (PvP). Lost a 35 mins long game against a platinum player (that was my league since, well, season 1) and got into gold o.O

Trying to get out of it now

Grimebox

I think points are reset both when the season changes and when you are promoted/demoted. I am not 100% sure of this however

F69Baal

they are reset at season start for sure. As for when you get promoted I am not sure, but hopefully I can tell you very soon (I think they aren't though, because when you are promoted in team game I dont remember starting from 0 again)

Grimebox

I remember my points just dramatically changing when I got promoted. The more I think about, the more it seems like I'm talking out of my arse. I'll have to get promoted to prove it, no biggie

StrOut88

Yeah iirc your points get modified when you get promoted or demoted. 1000 diamond =/= 1000 master for expample

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

im probably gona get back into diamond this week or next, playing diamonds just about all the time now but I keep making stupid mistakes in games and playing when I know im not playing well so going on massive losing streaks

it feels like platinum now is kinda where low-mid diamond was when i was playing actively. in the time I took off, everyone else improved and I just got worse pretty damned annoying

Foxhole Norman

Really happy with my play today - 10 games played, 8 Wins/2 Losses in Platinum. Played a lot of Diamonds today so I think I might get promoted soon:



Even playing on my wooden PC's Pentium 4 :P

Grimebox

Foxhole Norman wrote: »

Really happy with my play today - 10 games played, 8 Wins/2 Losses in Platinum. Played a lot of Diamonds today so I think I might get promoted soon:



Even playing on my wooden PC's Pentium 4 :P

What is this?? A screenshot for ants???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u9UWw5PPYQ

Foxhole Norman

Grimebox wrote: »

What is this?? A screenshot for ants???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u9UWw5PPYQ

Don't know why its so small. It was taken on a 40" screen for gods sake :pac:

NighTxX

Nvm picture wont work O.O

Grimebox

Played my placements with my bronze buddy (he doesn't really play 1v1 though) and we just joked around with the idea of doing badly so we could just have some fun in the lower leagues. We won 4/5 games and got placed in plat! One game we worker rushed, the others we went monobattles. Immortal/hellion ain't too shabby it turns out although its awful versus banshees. The only game we lost was an unsuccessful worker rush

Tenger

Must say thanks to the various posters who offered advice to low level bronze/silver players. It has definitely helped my play, I started with Khaz's 3 Rax stim push build and have done well with it and a few variations. (ie. 10 min 16 +1/+1 marine drop v Zerg)

Have been top 3 in my Bronze division over the last 4-5 days. Can't seem to get a decent win streak in but over 50% of my matches are against Silver players, I get the odd Gold too. My MMR has to be on the cusp but just trying to get a 5-8 win streak together to grasp that promotion.

25 games over the last 2 days,(17 v Silver) 15/10 in my favour. (5 of the losses were v Bronze players!)

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

`just got promoted back into diamond on the last night before it locks

it didnt take many points from me though, i was around 600 points in plat and i'm 400 or so in my diamond division

Tenger

Season 5 to be locked this coming Wednesday:

http://eu.battle.net/sc2/en/blog/3645681/Season_5_Lock_Coming_Soon_-03_02_2012#blog









Bugger, haven't played in a week and won't be able to until the weekend. No promotion for me this season....or ever it seems!!

dardoz

I was hoping to get out of bronze after my first season, but judging by Blizzard's post stating that 1200 points are needed for automatic promotion from bronze I guess that's me screwed