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Can you get to a silver league from a bronze league while your not number 1??

so i`m rank one my silver league. i was placed there after lossing 4 matches on pupose. BUT now i`m rank one for the last 11 won matches. WTF ?

Well written FAQ and easy to understand.

Q. Does the system take into account stats gathered from within a match, e.g. actions per minute (APM), units destroyed, etc.?
A. No, the system only cares about whether a match was won or lost, and the skill of the participants.

So how do you scan for skill?

Q. How does a player move from one league to another? (For example: from Silver league to Gold.)
A. The system constantly evaluates a team or player's performance given the difficulty of opponents and will move teams that belong in another league.

Except everyone knows that league shifts happen once in a blue moon, even if you are fighting higher ups match after match.
For example a bronze player actually winning against a diamond player and still remaining in bronze.

And more fail, so yeah, I agree. Useless FAQ. I think a facepalm is in order.

Quote from FAQ: "A. The Favored indicator helps give you an idea of whether the contender you're pitted against is considered to be even with you, challenging to you, extremely challenging to you or not a challenge."
Is this the sign that is being displayed while players are loading? Also what does the "slightly favored" sign above our team means? Are we more powerfull players or do we get a handicap or smth?

Wow, this FAQ was pretty useless. It states the obvious and avoids and specific data.

An indication of wether a player/team are being considered for promotion would be nice, such as getting flagged to play 5 qualifying matches, fail win enough of those matches and we lose a bunch of hidden points, need to play more before we are considered again.

We need some kind of indication of what is going on, SC2 likes to show off stats but the stats we all want to know are hidden.

Could be a bit clearer about what is regarded as skill level. Is it purely accumulated points, or is there some "hidden" means of measuring a player's competence (something I've read a few times in unofficial threads).

On jumping leagues, it is said the system only wants to promote you when it knows for sure how high or low you'll enter in the new league, probably trying to ascertain you'll fare well. How does it estimate this?

Overall I wasn't very impressed with the FAQ answers, they weren't as elaborate as I'd hoped they'd be.

Great game though, keep it up! :)

Hi im 24 and really like this game in general so thanks to all out there who has been showing too much afford for this beautiful game but in my opinion SC2 still somehow isnt mature yet,couple things to mention I cant find any information about mass disconnections,especially for users that who had an unlucky start,i was getting disconnected every game you havent heard wrong formerly it was twice or three times and it turned to every single game,have been discussing about this for alot of time on technical service which most of us didnt even get a single respond thats also another thing now i play with the same settings but i dont get disconnected recently,My question is here to some responsible people,well as you know nobody would like to experience the game that way but what are the options we have with our accounts and one more thing for very first time i just joined to couple parties with some guys i randomly met in games and i was in practice league by the time and the other guys were in competition league i figured that out after when i started my placement matches that these matches also reflected directly to the my actual quick match which i wasnt even officially started to placements matches.Simply i had a very unlucky start with the game actually i would be really happy if one of the guys here contact me here willing to have a clean start and discuss about some particular problems that i had very often previously,Thanks

This FAQ seems pretty useful to me and many of the questions here are indeed asked in the forums often.

No, the system only cares about whether a match was won or lost, and the skill of the participants. So since it doesn't check your apm units etc... What does it account into under "skill of the participants"?

I must complain about leagues, when i played with my two friends that are Diamond in 1v1 and 2v2, I am Silver in 1v1 and 2v2, and I played with each of them 2v2 games, with first friend we were moved to the Silver league, but after then every game we played against gold, platinum and even diamonds and with second friend we went to Bronze after qualification and with him we played against gold, platinum diamond, and our score is 7-7, so it seems to be, that the match system is giving us hard opponents because I am playing played with skilled teammates, but the system does not count with my low skill, so if we played against gold and platinum we should not be in Bronze. It is really hard if I am not so good in team and we played against diamonds players that have over 200 matches together. Matching system is same bad system like it was in w3, you have not improve it, and it is sad after so many years :(.

Why does it take so long to get to your 'correct' league if you underperformed in your placement matches?

Why are there no chat channels to promote community and team-forming?

Are all divisions within a league equal?

This is not what is FAQ....

nothing to see here or read

Nothing new to me. Mechanics of promotion/demotion is still hidden, so nothing interesting.