2010
2011
2012
2013
as well as which year do you feel had the highest tier of professional play?
Why?
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Perseverance
Japan2800 Posts
2010 2011 2012 2013 as well as which year do you feel had the highest tier of professional play? Why? | ||
Highways
Australia6098 Posts
In terms of ladder, it's probably harder now because all of the casuals have gone. So it's only the hardcore players left. I'll say Gold 2015 = Diamond 2010 in terms of skill. | ||
KingAlphard
Italy1705 Posts
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Faust852
Luxembourg4004 Posts
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Perseverance
Japan2800 Posts
On November 29 2015 20:30 KingAlphard wrote: The skill level of top players is probably constantly increasing (over the years). Lotv and hots are also more demanding to play compared to the previous expansions. However getting on top of the ladder back then was much harder because there were a lot more players. Yeah since everything up to GM was done based on a certain % it makes sense that it was harder to climb around the end of 2011. I feel like that was the peak in terms of difficulty in getting into GM as well. Just wanted to see what other people thought regarding this. | ||
Fake)Plants
United States373 Posts
On November 29 2015 20:28 Highways wrote: 2012 was probably the peak for SC2 In terms of ladder, it's probably harder now because all of the casuals have gone. So it's only the hardcore players left. I'll say Gold 2015 = Diamond 2010 in terms of skill. Maybe it's just because I've recently returned, but yeah, ranking up seems much harder nowadays. I do remember a time when there was a real concern about oversaturation during 2012 as well. | ||
Big J
Austria16289 Posts
For professional play the hardest of the listed ones was 2013, because that's when the Kespa switch started to take effect and oversaturated the Korean scene. It is not a coincidence that around that time a lot of players retired or got irrelevant. | ||
Brutaxilos
United States2572 Posts
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justnny
United States171 Posts
2013 was, by far, the best for professional play- stacked tournament after stacked tournament. These days,though, I've played Gold players that would have rolled me back on the 2012 ladder. The professionals are consistently far better than they ever have been, at least up until LotV released. LotV scrambled everything and most of the games look like early 2010 SC2, where nobody knows how to play. | ||
KalWarkov
Germany4126 Posts
with LotV being so fresh, the competetive peak was blizzcon 2015 and the weeks before that (hots), the "best" ladder is the one right now. at least for EU / KR. | ||
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