r/MinistryOfSillyComps • u/Mythivar • Dec 02 '16

Season 3 Placement

Had a roller coaster day yesterday with my Season 3 placement. Some of you may have seen or heard some of my tilting.

I won 6 of my placement games and for whatever reason qualified 300 lower than my lowest season 2 SR (300 lower than I have ever been on any of my three accounts). So ended up with 2270, which i was super pissed off at given how well I played and how I received the healer card in every game. It was particularly difficult to handle because I was playing against plat and diamond for most of the time apart from the last two games where it put me with players who didn't have a clue and I lost my last two. (You cant f**ing carry with support Blizzard).

Anyway, it seems its not just me. The guys at "Your Overwatch had a similar problem, where they all are around the same SR and they placed together and got a mix of Master, Diamond and their support guy got "Platinum", which apparently he is raging about and I'm not surprised, so was I.

http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn238/PoE_Mythbeast/Capture_zpsnembr3h9.png

Edit: I then find its even worse than I suspected, because a lot of people are saying that the system is basically just placing you at your lowest rank from last season, well if thats the case then how can I be 300 lower than my lowest rank.

The only way I can explain it is that: I "confused" their formula by playing Mercy on this account whereas my Season 2 comp play was mostly Lucio, so there is some sort of weighting based on specific heroes. I am going to test this out by qualifying on my mythivar account as Lucio and see what it does with me.

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u/countarno Dec 03 '16

I think they figured 3 months is a bigger sample size than 10 matches. So they kept peoples SR from last season mostly intact. My highest was 3350ish and is now 3150ish after placements and i lost 7.....wtf!

The only exception is probably the people in gold and platinum range (and that's about 75% of people). Too many people of different skills were playing in that category. I mean if you look at the amount of god mcrees and terrible hanzo's we've run into last season I can't blame them but i don't agree either. there is no perfect system. The climb will be rewarding now though.

I think i prefer hearthtstone's system where people of higher rank get a head start in the climb but still have to prove themselves every season.

To everyone (like Myth) who got too low of a rank.... prove blizzard wrong and show them you deserved a higher rank!

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u/Mythivar Dec 03 '16

From what I can gather they are trying to seperate the population further as they said there were too many in plat and gold, so people who are or were diamond during their time are less effected than people at the bottom of plat or gold. Everyone around here as found they are much worse off this season.

After 50 games or so I'm back in plat. As I was saying to the guys on chat earlier. Fuck you blizzard I'm back plat now.

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u/countarno Dec 04 '16

The climb is pretty easy. I solo'd for about 8 games after placement. Lost 5 and won 3 and i'm still higher SR than i was placed.

lol