Re-qualifying

[bmike]

(10-07-2012 12:48 AM)GreatGonzales Wrote:  I don't get the purpose of re-qualifying...aren't we being constantly re-qualified as we play league matches? If you start losing a lot, you'll get demoted, and if you start winning a lot, you'll get promoted. Why do we need to re-qualify?

The main reason I would ditch my history in a heartbeat is due to a bug in the early placement. I was placed in Masters after 5 matches (yes I did beat one of the top 5 super titans at the time) and after another 5 games, I was promoted to Super Titan.

I was no where near the real ST caliber and since then I've been matched way wrong. I've thought of ending all my games and asking for a reset but a better solution would be to age out old games once you have 100 recent games to judge your performance.

Tactics evolve to match the changes in the games - and an attacking style that won some initial games before people learned how to defend are now punished by the game mechanics. New changes will certainly make some styles of play much stronger and others will have to re-adjust to FTA and wit balance.

The big problem is two fold.

1) Age - me beating or losing to someone a month ago shouldn't matter as much as me matched against someone else today.
2) Bug - the buggy placement of past means that the system has the wrong strength for many players. If the bug placed me too high - my losses to players promoted them too high as well.

The system is opaque so we all have anecdotal evidence and suspicions that may be founded or may not be founded, but I would love the chance to buy a clean slate for .99 just for the fun of trying to level up again and see if I'm really in the correct spot or if those early 200 games I played are overly weighing me in my current spot.