"One way to almost guarantee a promotion by next season is to earn the number of division ladder points given in the corresponding table entry below by February 7, in anticipation of a February 14 Season roll. (*Date subject to change.)"
Also helpful blog for those that are unsure how close they are to being promoted this season.
(2) Xel’naga Caverns
Players have been enjoying Xel’naga Caverns since the StarCraft II beta. However, as this map is no longer preferred in a tournament setting, we’ve opted to pull it from the pool for this season.
(2) Arid Plateau
In the spirit of making every ladder map tournament viable, we added two new maps last season that would be true to that goal. We pushed some new features on Arid Plateau such as unusual natural expansions, and a lot of open areas around the map. Arid Plateau wasn’t as widely accepted as a tournament friendly map, so we’ve decided to retire it from the rotation for Season 6.
During lockout, there are no promotions or demotions, but your MMR still changes with each match. Once the new season starts, you play one placement match. Based on your MMR after that match, you are then placed.
During lockout, there are no promotions or demotions, but your MMR still changes with each match. Once the new season starts, you play one placement match. Based on your MMR after that match, you are then placed.
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Originally Posted by breadfan
Bandit, you play one placement match instead of 5. It's more of a decider in case your MMR is borderline. Many times, it won't even matter.
Ok sweet, goin' for that sweet gold
What is the point of locking the leagues a week before reset anyway?
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I am only guessing, but I'd say it's just to make sure there are no anomalies after reset with points/MMR. When you get promoted, your points are adjusted.
Say you're bronze and go up to 500 points before you get promoted to silver, as soon as your promoted you will have only say 150 points.
Basically, it just means that Blizz can be sure all the data is right before they make changes.
Not to worry though, it gives you a chance to use up any accumulated bonus pool!
(In my experience, I've found the point targets are quite high, so rather than focus on getting promoted that way I just try to get some games in and promotions generally follow soon after the next season starts)
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628 points on NA with 59 bonus pool atm. I think I can make 800
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Azz had a chance at this one point in the game where he had a nexus and 6 probes. But he found a way to **** it up from there 3 times in a row - Iaguz
uh uh that is so soon!! man there is no way im going to make 800 points this season! but next!! how does the bonus pool actually work? I mean lets say you have 43 points in it, do they just double your points won when winning until you run out or ?
Bonus pool doubles points gained up to a max of either +13 or +15 I think. So you cant get like a ton of points after playing no ladder and then crank your MMR up and exploit it by getting super fast points from a string of favored opponent matches
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