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**Harti** · (This post was last modified: 07-17-2012 04:42 AM by Harti.)

@mkaen:
One should only get into the higher leagues if they're winning constantly over time. Five games are completed in 1-2 days.

The placement matches don't (or at least shouldn't anymore) get you into a game with a STL player. And even if they do and you manage to win against the STL player, who can tell if they aren't that good or just had a bad day, misclicked, got booted or whatsoever? The system can't really know (except for the boot), so there is no point in placing someone into STL after winning their five placement matches.

Not even if they won 5 times against distinct STL #1s in their placement matches.

You can roll a six with a six-sided die five times in a row. It is highly unlikely but it occasionally happens and still you can't consider the die to be manipulated. If that streak continues even further you will eventually have proof for a manipulation.
The matchmaking system is just like that. If you win five games in a row, even against Super-Titans only, it could well be that FTA also played a role? Whatever the case, my point is:

Harti Wrote:One should only get into the higher leagues if they're winning constantly over time.

If it's something you can reproduce a whole lot of times, though, you should of course be considered skilled enough. Super-Titan league (and Master League as well I would say) should be something you have to earn. I remember that about 10 days ago people had won their placements 5-0 against Master League players, got placed into Master League, and these were people who didn't seem to know what a bonus space is and thought that spamming Heavies or building a Bombshell and leaving it exposed with 1 HP (or shelling it up on the only spawn point) was totally a winning strategy.

Just keep playing man, if you're good enough you'll make it in no time. There are no official numbers about that but I think for Super-Titan league it's something alongside 75 games played in total with a good enough win ratio against Masters and Super-Titans. This is completely reasonable.