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last year ( September ) i was #1 in my silver division and constantly playing gold league members and winning a fair share of the matches


fast forward to now , and bronze league people are now giving me the same run for my $$$ as did the previous gold leagues...


in the year+ i took off from SC2 , the skill levels of SC2 players changed remarkably - enough so that bronze league is comparable to last year's gold and so on

i recently posted a game here @ N3O that honestly is one of the better games i've ever played , much more so than my previous stints on ladder  http://www.n3oclan.com/5822/crazy-taldarim-altar-1v1/

so my question to everyone is this :  how has SC2 and the level of competitiveness changed for everyone in the various leagues..... if bronze can be comparable to last years high silver/gold , what of platinum-diamond-masters ?

i am curious to how everyone views this - i have been genuinely intrigued by the change of pace in this game's evolution





- Dan

 

lol


SC2 BN is becoming like iCCup ..... plagued by low ranked APM monsters who've memorized 30,000+ build variants



the ones new to SC2 i envision will rage quit many matches out of frustration

I feel like I've steadily been improving, but my rank has stayed about the same. Some of it might be because I've started to have extended breaks from sc2 recently, because of other games I've gotten into.

It is not only about improving or skill level is getting higher.

It is also about people leaving the game, though my assumption is also here that more low leaguers leave the game then mid or top leaguers.
The leagues are so arranged that every league has 20% of current active players except Diamond with 18% and Masters with 2%.

Woot im better in aoe3..Skill levels in aoe3 have decreased though, captain from nowadyas = 1st lt from back when sc2 wasn't released yet

Back before the summer i was master in 1v1 and never played diamonds 1v1 ever.

Fast forward 15-16 weeks and I haven't played more than 2 or 3 1v1s on the NA server. I'm now 8-5 in master's league in season 4 and have faced 3 top diamonds already >_>

So i guess the skill level did rise.

Quote from: Aaryn_GenD on November 28, 2011, 14:12:30

 plat=complete noob is not true, platinum is like master seargeant to 1st lieutenant level in aoe3

Really? Damn it, felt better when i played in Platinum League than Mst. Serg level

maybe a bit of an overstatement, but i ugess master seargeant should be gold then. not saying an aoe3 master sergeant is as skileld as an sc2 gold player! i'm comparing the games to themselves, not to each other.

I took a two month break and went from master league to platinum T_T.. im now back in top 8 diamond playing vs some master but its taken a while ...