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I got assigned to the Gold League. :) Won 4 of my 5 placement matches.

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Damn, and you say you're bad at it. I can't go higher than 35th place in my Bronze league.

Really sad to see that we won't be able to play 2v2 team ladder games together :(

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We can, as you discovered today. ;) Was fun to play with you, I hope we'll do that more often.

Did you all beat the campaign yet? On what difficulty? I started out on hard, which was ok for me. But the last level is incredibly hard on... hard. (I (accidentily) beat it on normal.)
I made some stupid upgrade decisions too. :)

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I definitely want to play that 2v2 team ladder with you! :) I'll be trying harder next time ;)

I'm about to finish the campaign, I've got the last 2 missions left. I'm really worried about the last one, and I'm playing on normal :)

Which choice did you take on the second to last mission? [minor spoiler] Did you take out the air or ground units? [/minor spoiler]

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I thought air units would be less annoying. I think I might have made the wrong choice though...

The last level was doable on normal. Good luck! See you online.

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I still haven't finished the campaign. The Terran just have to many little idiosyncrasies that I can't be bothered to deal with. As far as multi goes, I'm still in bronze, but I'm first in my division and have been playing (and beating) a lot of silver opponents lately, so that will probably change this weekend.

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I remember reading that Blizzard haven't made league promotions available yet. They say more matches need to be played.

Finished the campaign, btw; and having a blast playing 2v2 teams with Angrist!

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Yesterday's last match was pretty neat, with our great comeback.

I still don't really understand this League thing. I'm in Gold, but I've mostly had to face players from the platinum and even diamond league. There was one guy who was ranked 1 in the silver league, he kicked my ass (slightly).
So basically right now it's total chaos? Plays from silver can be better than platinum?

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Well, since you get placed into a league by playing only 5 placement matches, there are bound to be some misplaced players.

Just think, what if all 5 of your opponents in the placement matches dropped out of the game? You'd probably be at least Gold.

BTW, I changed my avatar. Since I can't go for gold in the challenges right now, I'm getting my Spectre fix here ;)

Edit: Found something nice. It's a pretty in-depth FAQ about ladders and rankings and promotions. And it seems that promotions are allowed..

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Hah, I just got out of a 56 minutes' match. I was Protoss, I faced Terran.

- I open with "Hi. Another chance to train against MMM!" (I hate that strategy.)
- He doesn't go for MMM but for a proxy rush. I spot that and kill his worker. In his camp I kill another one, I get chased by a third one, which I also kill.
- Apparently this scared him, because he locks himself up in his base with tanks. After I get a nice army I try to get in and defeat him, but I lose the battle.
- He gets Banshees which can turn invisible. He doesn't know I have an observer in his base all the time, so I see everything coming. I deal with them easily.
- He gets Battlecruisers, a lot of them. I guess I wasn't paying attention, because I get owned. Even though I destroy most of his forces (High Templar's Feedback halves their HP and prevents Yamato Cannon), my main base gets wiped out.
- I get to the 2 Island expansions and build a flying Void Ray army. I have more minerals than I can spend, but I'm a bit low on gas. I keep harassing his expansions, but he still gets a nice air army again. My Void Rays beat them.
- I use some survivors of my ground units to kill his workers. My Void Rays take out his main base which is totally undefended. Five minutes later I have found his last base. We agree that was a great match. :)


Soooooo... do any of you have fun stories?

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How about posting the replay?

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Why, you don't even have time for your own replays. :p But ok.

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So does anyone still play this?


I finally hit rank 1 of my Gold division, and how! I faced a Platinum Protoss rank 26. We were both playing very defensively, which basically meant none of us attacked. When he finally did, I kicked his butt. I realized I had to attack while my army was still bigger than his, but I took way too long. When I finally struck him, I lost the battle. I had almost nothing.
I thought I was going to lose and I would have if he had attacked at that point. But apparently we both wanted to have some fun (he while winning, me while losing).

Soooo I went for a Mothership. :D Since he still wasn't attacking me, I got 3 Cariers, lots of zealots and some sentries with that. I used Vortex to split his army in half, then I beat him easily. He couldn't believe he lost to me. After that we became buddies and we'll probably do some 2v2 together. :)

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I finally bought a new computer! I bought it for Starcraft 2 and Civ 5. The parts should be here by Wednesday next week.

The question is... will I play Civ 5 first, or SC2? :)

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Depends on how much time you have to sink in. The SC2 campaign can be played in 20 hours or so (first time). I know from Civ 4 that one single game can last more than 40 hours...

On the other hand, SC2 has a much better multiplayer, so you should definately end up with doing that.