Someone over on Team Liquid is posting screenshots of the new league icons, and all the ladders say "Season 2".
http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=197378
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty
Game » consists of 10 releases. Released Jul 27, 2010
The first chapter in the StarCraft II trilogy focuses on the struggles of the Terran race, as seen through the eyes of Commander Jim Raynor, leader of the rebel group Raynor's Raiders.
Ladder season 2 coming soon?
" Does this mean I'm soon going to have to redo the placement matches I just did yesterday? "Your current ladder record is erased(not exactly, but you'll start out with 0 points) but they'll keep your hidden MMR and you'll only have to play a single placement match before you're placed into your new division.
I'm happy that the higher leagues will get rid of the non-active players; that way people who have been stuck on the 1st place in their lower leagues will get a chance to improve. I personally hate it when 20% of spots in a league are taken by players with 0 points while people in the leagues below struggle to get promoted.
This reset won't actually hurt the active players, since you'll just get a chance to be in a league actually fitting your skill; even if you don't do really well in the 1 placement match, as your MMR will stay the same, you'll be matched against players on your level. But hey, if you just bought an account 4 months ago and don't play the game anymore you'll be dropped to, let's say, bronze to leave a spot for more active players.
According to my understanding of the ladder the placement of anyone else does not have any effect on your personal placement. So regardless of how many people who never play games are in the platinum or diamond leagues or whatever, if you have the skill to be there you should be there.
That said, it would be nice to thin out some of the groups and get the groups of 100 consolidated so that active players have other active players in their group of 100. It would create more rivalry and foster competition hopefully.
When you find out about the date, throw a whole ton of games and that should fix your problem." cant wait, im stuck in plat, which is above my current skill level, i wanna get down to bronze or silver. "
They did a test reset on the PTR and it upgraded me to Gold on it. Which is hilarious because all I did on PTR was nuke rush with terran and won few games.
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