Season 5 Has Begun

Season 5 Has Begun

The fifth StarCraft II League season has arrived! At this time, Season 4 milestones have been awarded, and bonus pools and standings have been reset. Hidden skill ratings used for matchmaking and league placement have carried 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 to kick off the new season.

Don’t forget to review the changes to the official ladder pool for season 5, as well, and keep in mind that Grandmaster League will start next week.

Good luck, have fun!

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Eclipse #847
Eclipse
31/01/2012
does anyone know when season 6 begins?
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DeaDǂScreAm #954
DeaDǂScreAm
28/01/2012
When is the ladder gonna shutdown for the season?
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Dinu #303
Dinu
27/01/2012
73th
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YoǂGG #566
YoǂGG
25/01/2012
Ok, beginning of the season I got promoted to Master 4v4 Random Team got high master then afk for 2 weeks, lost about 10 games then demoted back to diamond :( now im over 160 points clear of rank 2 in Diamond and meeting high masters/favoured teams and not budgeing, can anyone help or explain thankyou.
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Kakado #307
Kakado
26/01/2012
@Khaotic: you are not getting promoted because that you are still winning( if you are winning) you will get promoted when you begin to loose games. Lets say you are platinium. You begin to fight diaamond and pwn them. you beegin to fight masters, you begin to loose more games, but you are still winning some. You will get promoted to masters then.
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BroER #278
BroER
27/01/2012
@Khaotic: As Kakado wrote - bnet is trying to find out perfect spot for you. (that means your rating will be around 50/50)
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Jackytheman #745
Jackytheman
23/01/2012
I just started the game 3 days ago and im still in the practice league....I play teran cause there unit and structure are simple....unlike zerg i seem to loose all the time does anyone know a guide for terran and how do i get in leagues?
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VFKaza #597
VFKaza
23/01/2012
@Jackytheman: you cant have a "guide" for terran, you can create your own builds and apply them, and terran is not a simple race all the races are complex in a way. find a race which you find the best to play and continue with that
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Proger #514
Proger
24/01/2012
@Jackytheman: Yes check out Hdstarcraft and Huskystarcraft you also may want to check out day9.
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Vazarius #210
Vazarius
19/01/2012
I am rank is 15 in bronze league.I don't know how long season last.Which rank do i have to be to go to the silver league?What should i do/how long I must play in bronze league?
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Tango #467
Tango
20/01/2012
@Vazarius: Try to get rank 1 and keep winning, then you will hit silver league
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Kakado #307
Kakado
24/01/2012
@Vazarius: you will hit silver and even bigger leagues if you win over slightly favored and favored and keep winning, then when you begin to loose again you will rank up.
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RRkovas #486
RRkovas
18/01/2012
i am bronze league and i hate it all noobs i all way get first place in bronze matches and my freind is diamond but i am much better than he is. I hate the ranking system they have to fix it soon at least in 1 month it will end.
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VFKaza #597
VFKaza
23/01/2012
@RRkovas: you have to get around a 10 win streak for bronze, then you will be promoted to silver. you have to prove that you belong in a higher league. he is probably in diamond because he won all his placement matches, which does not prove that hes a diamond potential player, so he will be demoted soon i guess
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AssBlast #964
AssBlast
23/01/2012
@LifetimeKaza: U dont need to win all ur placment matches to get into diamond. Its combined with your total score.
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Syhm #796
Syhm
18/01/2012
how do i get to silver? being 2 in my league at bronze.... so boring... i need competition, thx :)
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Shase #864
Shase
21/01/2012
@Syhm: On the 1st page of your match history you have 11 losses and 5 wins of the only mode you play, 4v4... I'd say you're getting all the competition you could ever want.
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Syhm #796
Syhm
22/01/2012
@Shase: but how do i get to silver? and i dont have 11 losses and 5 wins
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VFKaza #597
VFKaza
23/01/2012
@Syhm: you have to get a good streak of wins, or u can get a good win/lose ratio which will promote you eventually
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CreepBlood #382
CreepBlood
09/01/2012
How long do you guys suggest that seasons should last if you could decide ?

The time for the short seasons right now is understandable for people who want to get into grandmaster so it can continually reset for new players to try to enter the top 200 of the "Big League"(Grand Masters League)

For me I'm kind a glad that the seasons are short since i don't have to wait so long for my win/loss ratio to reset :p
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Darmorgaut #831
Darmorgaut
03/01/2012
Seasons are way too short. They could be 2x longer than this.
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ArtificiaL #447
ArtificiaL
30/12/2011
With the seasons being so short, I just gave up playing SC altogether, and I doubt I'll be getting HoTS now because of that.
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CTNitbiT #987
CTNitbiT
28/12/2011
Woohoo, finally, hopefully I get placed in Bronze, was tired to get my !@# kicked in silver :p

During placement matches, i won 1, lost 3, "won" 1 from a gold/platinum player cause he surrendered so he could stay in bronze. (I was chatting with him, I like to talk a bit to other players ;) )

So, because for the "matchmaking system" I won from a far better player than me, and was placed in silver. There I get my $%^ kicked, lose about all (won 1, a couple already surrender after a few minutes, why i dunno)
And still I'm not demoted to bronze, where I belong more imo.

Can someone explain me how this works? I also do often 2v2 / 3v3 / 4v4 wiht silver/gold games, where we win a lot as team. Are those games also counting for you 1v1 league?

Anyways, long post, i wanna conclude with these last famous words:
gl hf all !!!

:p
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Kakado #307
Kakado
13/01/2012
@CTNitbiT: You will have to loose fights where you are atleast "slightly favored" and alot of them. when you loose like 4 fights where you are slightly favored, try to win the next 2 even matched and continue that way, if someone other than you is favored, you will need to loose. If you don't, you will have to start over loosing.
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Marvel #380
Marvel
28/12/2011
gl hf all :D can't wait for HOTS!
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SonOfaGlitch #226
SonOfaGlitch
28/12/2011
Waiting for next expansion to fix the absolutely unplayable, broken, imbalanced game
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CheCkMaTe #365
CheCkMaTe
23/12/2011
can u check ur MMR somewhere??
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GrandBrand #336
GrandBrand
23/12/2011
It makes me cry when I see many players still do not understand how ladder system works...
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NeoGalaxy #969
NeoGalaxy
28/12/2011
@GrandBrand: Just curious here but what makes you think that you do understand how the ladder works? Or what makes you think that the ladder works like some people say it works?
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DarkSidee #595
DarkSidee
22/12/2011
go!+
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RAZERKhas #765
RAZERKhas
22/12/2011
Waiting for Diablo III so badly.
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RAZERKhas #765
RAZERKhas
22/12/2011
All those new seasons are destroying the game.
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@Khas: The new sesons are not destroying anything! So you want to play with un active players? o.O Would be really boring... better to have a league with some challeng! And not be top 1 just becus the un active people..
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NeoGalaxy #969
NeoGalaxy
28/12/2011
@Competences: Your english is sooo bad that my monitor died, please do yourself a favor and learn how to write in english 1st mate, then you can post no worries.
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NeoGalaxy #969
NeoGalaxy
28/12/2011
@Khas: To be honest I stopped playing as 2 months is quite too little to even bother playing in a league. But well, as I see less players online seems others made the same choice. There should be 2 seasons per year at most, so we can see who the strong (good) players are.
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ArtificiaL #447
ArtificiaL
30/12/2011
@XExcalibur: I'm exactly the same. The seasons just felt like they were going way too fast to keep up with so I just don't bother playing at all now.
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Kakado #307
Kakado
13/01/2012
@XExcalibur: First: i do not think that the short seasons destroy anything at all. I think it is nice with some new maps and some change. Second: Even if a person is not good at english, it does not mean that they don't got an opinion. Everyone got an opinion, and it is worth just as much as yours. And i don't play to be number one and the best sc2 player of all times. Because non of us are ever gonna be as good as the pro players. And next time you argue with someone. Don't try an argue by saying"Your english is sooo bad that my monitor died, please do yourself a favor and learn how to write in english 1st mate, then you can post no worries."
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CreepBlood #382
CreepBlood
22/12/2011
Any one master yet!!!? xD I just made it!!!
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BlackThief #616
BlackThief
24/12/2011
@CreepBlood: congratulation
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УльТрурльиск #887
УльТрурльиск
21/01/2012
@CreepBlood: now make master in 1x1 : )