[Tom]

Source of the hotfix: http://sea.battle.net/sc2/en/forum/topic/125992601

Yes the hotfix was extremely noticeable. The arranged team 2v2 ladder overnight went from having around 20 teams in one division to two divisions with around 150 teams (last time I checked). The good thing about all these new "masters" is that it is suddenly easy to get points in 2v2 again. aLtGuc and I stomped our way to #1 in a couple of hours.

Also, is it just me or did Bliz lower the Grandmaster MMR bar at the same time? I noticed a whole lot of new players got placed in GMs league (as indicated by the "!"), and suddenly everyone I play is "slightly favoured" and I'm getting lots of points. This will probably sort itself out after a few more games (remember when Masters was first introduced and everyone got mass points until their points aligned with their MMR). The hotfix seems to have raised the par by 100-200 points for the same MMR, so everyone got a leg up.