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When will my tier change ?

• WGTpizza 1,656 Posts

  Fri, Oct 26 2012 10:38 AM

  Blade7658:

  All of that has been changed some by the new system that drops your average if you beat somebody of a higher tier.

  Hey Blade7658,

  I would like to correct some information here. The new anti-sandbagging system does not operate like this. Obviously, if you beat someone at a higher tier than you in one game, the only thing that will happen is people will congratulate you  :)

  The system tracks your play consistency. If you consistently beat players of a higher tier, the system may recognize you as having a much higher skill level then your tier denotes, and it will move you up.

   

  Stay classy,

  -WGTpizza

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Fri, Oct 26 2012 11:17 AM

  My average is stuck at the annoying "60.5" in trying to advance to the Tour Legend tier. It takes a solid 29/28 to move the needle. Once a player gets to that tipping point, it takes some low scored ranked rounds to advance to the next tier(s).

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Fri, Oct 26 2012 12:12 PM

  WGTpizza:

  The new anti-sandbagging system does not operate like this. Obviously, if you beat someone at a higher tier than you in one game, the only thing that will happen is people will congratulate you  :)

  The system tracks your play consistency. If you consistently beat players of a higher tier, the system may recognize you as having a much higher skill level then your tier denotes, and it will move you up.

  Stay classy,

  -WGTpizza

  I think you're wrong. My friend who was a Tour Pro beat me, a Tour Master and was immediately shunted up to Master. I am the only player she has beaten that was above her in tiers. Just saying.

• WGTpizza 1,656 Posts

  Fri, Oct 26 2012 12:33 PM

  courteneyfish:

  I think you're wrong. My friend who was a Tour Pro beat me, a Tour Master and was immediately shunted up to Master. I am the only player she has beaten that was above her in tiers. Just saying.

  This is the kind of data that is being collected and once enough time has past we will find whether or not people like your friend are being appropriately handled or not. I'm confident they are, but time will tell :)

   

  Stay classy,

  -WGTpizza

• SHRUDE 5,835 Posts

  Sun, Oct 28 2012 1:51 AM

  WGTpizza:

  once enough time has past

   

  ..passed

   

  WGTpizza:

  I'm confident they are

   

  Farrrrg

• piztaker 5,743 Posts

  Sun, Oct 28 2012 3:49 AM

  SHRUDE:

  WGTpizza:

  once enough time has past

  ..passed

  Is there anything more sad than somebody picking holes in another person's mistakes? Especially when they make lots of them themselves.

• SafariMan62 222 Posts

  Sun, Oct 28 2012 4:29 AM

  Hijeo:

  Hi everybody !

  I am looking for some chart or something that shows the number of ranked games and the average score needed to reach a new tier.

  Maybe it exists yet but I did not find it on the FAQ.

   

  Thx

  from what i have been reading lately, all you need to do is play many match games & hopefully win  a good percentage of them.....you will soar in tier advancement ....

  Good Luck

   

• alosso 21,072 Posts

  Sun, Oct 28 2012 5:44 AM

  SafariMan62:

  from what i have been reading lately, all you need to do is play many match games

  add ... against higher tiers ...

  SafariMan62:

  & hopefully win  a good percentage of them.....you will soar in tier advancement ....

  Good Luck

  ROTFL!

  Luck he needs, or a disconnect of said opponent - match won, advance in the queue.

• Blade7658 452 Posts

  Sun, Oct 28 2012 1:25 PM

  WGTpizza:

  Blade7658:

  All of that has been changed some by the new system that drops your average if you beat somebody of a higher tier.

  Hey Blade7658,

  I would like to correct some information here. The new anti-sandbagging system does not operate like this. Obviously, if you beat someone at a higher tier than you in one game, the only thing that will happen is people will congratulate you  :)

  The system tracks your play consistency. If you consistently beat players of a higher tier, the system may recognize you as having a much higher skill level then your tier denotes, and it will move you up.

   

  Stay classy,

  -WGTpizza

  Thanks - I have played almost no match play (AS I have played a bit more) and have never beat a Legend in match play, yet my score is not the old average that I was able to calculate with Excel. Thanks for the update, this is obviously multi-factorial.

• SHRUDE 5,835 Posts

  Sun, Oct 28 2012 9:44 PM

  piztaker:

  than somebody picking holes in another person's mistakes?

   

  Not so much the spelling error as the irony of it along with the other statement I quoted. But I suppose that was missed.