Season 4 Begins

Season 4 Begins

Season 4 has arrived! Season 3 milestone rewards will be locked in at this time and bonus pools will reset. Hidden skill ratings used for matchmaking and league placement will carry over from the previous season, so players who have completed placement matches in a previous season will only need to play one new placement match. Don’t forget to review the map changes which are coming in Season 4 as well.

Beginning with Season 4, two changes are coming to future ladder seasons:

  • Each season will now last for approximately two months.
  • Grandmaster league placement time will be reduced to one week (from two weeks) to account for the reduced season length.

Good luck, have fun!

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Marvel #380
Marvel
06/12/2011
When is season 5 coming???
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Scientist #616
Scientist
06/12/2011
Anyone knows when will season 5 begin
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gRom #964
gRom
21/11/2011
ah dark,today i played with you and I RLLY wonder how you manage to stay at golden for so long,we said rush we were 2 terrans,i had 2 mauraders 6 marines and you hadnt army at all...thats maybe how ladder goes a lil bit strange sometimes XD
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SharkZ #133
SharkZ
03/11/2011
Hey guys did u get your milestone awards already ?? . Because i still havent :(.I just wanted to ask if u know when does the players get their milestone rewards aproximately ?
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CylonVV #656
CylonVV
01/11/2011
@Patriot : i saw to some guys with 50 60 wins already, the guy must be good and 4sure not having a girlfriend :D
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Patriot #502
Patriot
01/11/2011
I saw a Guy today in my pool with 630 won games............. How could he make it in 6-7 days?
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DarthRado #728
DarthRado
05/11/2011
@Patriot: it's called portrait farming, which is against the rules. yo better report him
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SharkZ #133
SharkZ
29/10/2011
Hey guys did u get your milestone awards already ?? . Because i still havent :(.I just wanted to ask if u know when does the players get their milestone rewards aproximately ?
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aDyingApril #728
aDyingApril
28/10/2011
I was in silver and got bronze now :S wtf?! They say that "league placement will carry over from the previous season" What's up with that?
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Fluke #732
Fluke
29/10/2011
@aDyingApril: Well your mmr from the time the season is locked till its reopened is still effected so you must have did badly between seasons. Your mmr is always changing even when the season is locked you have to play 1 placement match each new season where it makes sure you are good enough for the higher league or the league your in and then it places you. So you did badly for a while and it demoted you for the new season.
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Garfield #193
Garfield
28/10/2011
Well, I hope I will stay in bronze... :-)
Have no time for climbing up, I play just sometimes and just for fun.
Map pool seems good...
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For me the last two seasons brought me 2 leagues up the ladder. So 2 months is just great! GL to all in S4! See you ingame!
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Justkuu #129
Justkuu
28/10/2011
Season 1 was most fun because of the duration. 2 Months for a season is so damn short its allmost not even worth it anymore to ladder up in every league. After 2 months you can see a good diffrerence between the bad players and the good players in your divisions. Now i wonder what you are laddering for. You can start over again in 2 months.

I would really like an explanasion from blizzard why they are making seasons this short. Or did i miss that? For me personally its a game ruiner.
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Koeppen #434
Koeppen
28/10/2011
It's not like you start over. Your MMR carries over and the placement match is only to tell the system that you're still active.
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MPGalaxar #829
MPGalaxar
28/10/2011
For GG everyone
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MGosu #716
MGosu
28/10/2011
There is something that sc1 has and sc2 doesnt. i couldnt find its name.. sc 2 has a bit more noobish style i dont know..
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Dark #1641
Dark
27/10/2011
I won 90% in Gold. Lost the first game of this season. Now I'm in silver--' Stupid rushers--' Get a normal game..
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DaloLorn #947
DaloLorn
28/10/2011
@Dark: sometimes normal games last ONLY 10-15 minutes...i've had a winning streak of 7 games yesterday, did a rather versatile tactic, even managed (by luck, because we simply didn't expect that...) to fend off an economy drop...
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clTransience #711
clTransience
27/10/2011
Woop woop, promoted to diamond.
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SharkZ #133
SharkZ
27/10/2011
Hey guys did u get your milestone awards already ?? . Because i still havent :(.I just wanted to ask if u know when does the players get their milestone rewards aproximately ?
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TLHP #580
TLHP
27/10/2011
In Diamond now :x its just Great :x
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ǃMuN #137
ǃMuN
27/10/2011
we want sc1 maps back! no team spawns, no sim city in 2v2.
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Zero #1275
Zero
27/10/2011
@ǃMuN: lolwut? new trolls every day... you yourself doesn't count as "we" :S
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ǃMuN #137
ǃMuN
27/10/2011
@Zero: yeah blizzard defenitely made it to make a mainstreamgame.....
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.... with full of noobs in it!
-> no fun
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DaloLorn #947
DaloLorn
28/10/2011
@ǃMuN: meh, it's the custom maps that made SC2 worth buying...but some of the concepts from SC1 (like SC1's poker defense, or good RPG maps) have yet to come up in SC2... :(
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SkullLeader #302
SkullLeader
27/10/2011
Promoted to Gold League :D.
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Faith #337
Faith
27/10/2011
Perfect map pool for 1v1, i will probably only veto 1-2 maps but the others are fun to play on.
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TesTyVexX #214
TesTyVexX
27/10/2011
I would like to see how many games I have played altogether not just how many I won. 76 wins, but I would like to see how many I lost and my games altogether. I know they took it off for the lower leagues but can you put it back on?
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Garotadene #298
Garotadene
27/10/2011
@TesTyVexX: Agree, they should really allow the option to choose if you want to see your win/loss rate. It sucks that you have to partner up to make masters to atleast see for team games
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DaloLorn #947
DaloLorn
28/10/2011
@Garotadene: definitely true - you now practically need to GUESS how good somebody is, which makes finding a good team quite difficult
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clNear #199
clNear
26/10/2011
Best map pool in the history of SC2.
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SlaktarN #355
SlaktarN
26/10/2011
GOGO !
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adrenomicon #272
adrenomicon
26/10/2011
noobish casual gaming ftw :)
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Markus #1928
Markus
26/10/2011
Great great all bad maps in 1v1(don't play team) are gone!!! love you blizzard
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STONE #598
STONE
26/10/2011
Blizzard should hold a competition for new maps. Maps designed by players for players!
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Firewalker #941
Firewalker
26/10/2011
Again a season omg so fast. hard work for nothing again....
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fissureX #551
fissureX
26/10/2011
@Firewalker: man your so right i wanted to get to the top 8 and i was at the 9th position but then a new season...
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Bladebaster #934
Bladebaster
26/10/2011
Nice!
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iAMǂLulaLula #688
iAMǂLulaLula
26/10/2011
What is wrong with blizzard and this 2vs2 maps, they are so bad, it makes rush=0 boosts turteling and makes the game so unfun, i hate it, it;s like they can;t think straigh, i mean all the maps they made become nr.1 ban for most of top master players/teams and they still keep making maps and putting 2 or 3 people in the same base, how is that logical!?!!? and who is so brain dead to make the game exactly oposite the direction people want it, if u listen to your community then give people what they want and don;t make people not play the game anymore with bad maps, plz, for now in 2vs2 i would ban 90% of the maps how is that for a fact!?!?!!?
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Rathaelix #502
Rathaelix
27/10/2011
@iAMǂLulaLula: Good sir, thou shalt not rush thy opponent, nor shalt thou turtle on 1 base (for it is silly).
Seriously, play real, like a boss. Don't rush damn it!
IF your opponent turtles, then take map control and expand a lot.