Going up to a better league

[RoboFerret]

Anyone happen to know how that works? I know you have to be in the top of your league, but I don't know what else. And is it related to that 8 player tournament thing or is that something seperate?

[GRUNT]

Yeah, that's what I heard.

I'm not certain, but I think that once you're in the top 8 or 9, you start facing off against people from the league above you more frequently. And if you do well against them, then you'll get promoted to the next league.

[Extranjero]

I got promoted from Bronze to Gold

[SaZun]

I was placed into Bronze 1v1 after getting stomped in my placement matches by people. I hovered about rank 11 for a while but then everyone above me point wise got put into higher brackets. Once I hit rank 1 it shot me into Silver which im #4 last I saw but I probably went down since im at work. But while in Bronze in the top 8 I was playing a lot of people who said they were gold but it only ranked them as slighly favored. I also seemed to play a lot of people who were doing placement matches and would be favored against me.

[Hammy]

Yeah it turns out your rank and "points" aren't actually relevant to whether you're favored or not. You've got a hidden rank which determines your status.
That's why you can often be "favored" against someone who's ranked way higher than you are.

[infernal]

thanks for the info cool to finally know how it works at the moment

[Hav0x]

Blizzard has not revealed how you are moved up and they said they do not intend to.

[SaZun]

As soon as somebody realizes how it works it will get abused.

[Hammy]

As soon as somebody realizes how it works it will get abused.

How? Oh noes people will know that they have to win to rank up!

[SaZun]

Most people are under the impression it is based off of a number things not limited to win/loss ratio.

So ways it could be abused for instance is how APM can be abused. You could hotkey a worker, a structure and a say your group of workers. double tapping each macro will move ur camera to the spot. Game counts that as an action. So in the opening seconds when they have split there workers and are doing nothing they spam the macros and have 200 APM in the opening seconds.

You see the same sort of thing in replays if you follow the camera. People will be slapping their macro buttons without actually doing anything but the replay shows it as APM. Or moving a unit but instead of decisively moving him people click 15 times to move the unit to the same spot.