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LandRoverAttack
Joined: 09 Oct 2007
Location: sagamihara, kanagawa
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 Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 1:53 pm |
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Hey, this thread has been really cool and I learned a lot from reading it. I only started playing two weeks ago without any prior Starcraft experience (and only a little playing WCIII with friends on LAN and doing very poorly) so I really appreciate all the advice and such here. Hoping I can share humiliating defeats with some people with knowledge.
That said I'd certainly be up for games, my incredibly dumb character name is DoteUpAZerg code 564
Also does anyone have a clue how placement matches work?
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LandRoverAttack
Joined: 09 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2010 4:23 pm |
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| skelethulu wrote: |
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| Also does anyone have a clue how placement matches work? |
The purpose of the placement matches is to determine your initial ELO rating, and to try and get you up against similar skill-level players as quickly as possible. You will play an easy guy, and then a harder guy, and then a harder guy, until you lose one, and then it will try and give you easier guys (5 matches total). You will probably not be playing against other people who are in their placement phase, as unplaced players have low priority in matchmaking.
Once you're done, you'll be placed into a tier (gold, silver, etc). After your placement matches, your tier ranking continues to be evaluated every 5 matches (so if you somehow start out in diamond, but only got lucky to get there (extremely unlikely), and then get steam-rolled for a while, you won't get dropped back down until you finish 5 matches). This means that if you have a goal to hit Diamond, and then achieve it someday, you can stop playing once you do and never leave diamond (unless they wipe all the leaderboards as part of a season shift or something). The tiers are based on percentages of the overall userbase. |
Okay this makes a lot of sense. The placement matches were pretty amusing so I was wondering what kind of competition I had been up against. I play Protoss and one in particular involved the other guy sending Void Rays into my base as I hit his base with Stalkers and Zealots. I had two Void Rays myself, but I panicked and lost them vs. his three, only taking down one that wasn't charged yet. The rest of the match was totally ridiculous. I took out most of his base, powering down his Gates and Starports and killing his Nexus while his probes escaped and expanded while he supply blocked me immediately and killed my base. We both ran around killing each others buildings until I wiped him out. Looking back, there was a lot of stuff I could have done to end things more quickly... but I guess I was relatively confident I'd win anyway.
I probably didn't deserve to get Platinum, but the last guy said he had to go about 8 minutes into the match and left. He was Random but he ended up Zerg, and I literally had never played against a Zerg before, none of my friends play them and none of the practice league matches I had done had been vs. Zerg. I knew I had to wall off my ramp quickly with a Pylon, Gate and Zealot, which I probably should have done in the first place to be safe. I even built it wrong and left a gap! He did send 6 Zerglings in but got scared off when he saw the wall. I don't know if I would have won in the end as I was kind of panicked and had a lot of unspent resources. But now I am in Plat. I'll have to see what the competition is like here D:
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