I'm guessing each season will last around 12 months; purely because it's been about 12 months since Blizzard opened the beta of SCII (Feb 17 if I remember correctly).
But that's just a guess, of course, nothing official has come out yet.
Wasn't the beta a season in itself? So you can't really count the beta as part of season 1.
Technically yeah, it was all reset when SCII was released. I don't know, just makes more sense in my head for it to be 12 months p/ season, as opposed to 9 or so.
It should be shorter seasons to make people maintain interest in laddering. Then 1 more long season when HOTS comes out.
So I feel that one long season(9months) followed by short seasons (about 4 to 6 months) till the new expansion comes out. This is just my opinion and no means official blizzard news.
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Early game loss = Cheese
Mid game Loss = All in
Late game Loss = Imbalance
Ok so for 4v4 random I was in gold, I LOSE my placement match and it puts me in diamond.
Then I win the next game and it puts me in Master.... Someone explain this to me please
Wow, congrats dude! Pretty jelly about that :P
Your MMR must've been pretty high, and I believe bnet waits for you to lose a few matches before deciding to promote you. So for example you might go 20-3 and get promoted on your 4th loss. Not sure how to explain that but that's the gist I've gotten from hearing about some people's promotions.
I was ranked 1 in my bronze division before the ladder-lock. Played a bunch of games whilst it was locked and after 1 placement game got promoted to silver
Same thing happened with my 2v2 team, we were silver - played a fair few games during lock and we lost our placement 2v2 and still got promoted to gold.
I'm hoping that the seasons only last for 3 months, that way there's more incentive to keep laddering and trying to get the best rank you can for every season.
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