StarCraft II Wings of Liberty Update: Patch 1.3.0

Posted by Quelex on March 23rd, 2011 filed in (SCII) Patches, StarCraft 2, StarCraft News

General

Leagues & Ladders

- A new Grandmaster League has been added for 1v1 ladders. This league represents the Top 200 players in each region.
- Players are automatically drafted into the Grandmaster League shortly after a new season starts, and will remain in the Grandmaster League until the end of the season. If a Grandmaster player’s available bonus points get too high due to inactivity, they will be automatically removed from the league and a replacement player will be drafted in.
-The Grandmaster League can be viewed by all players through the new Leagues & Ladders > Grandmaster page.
- The bonus pool has been reduced for arranged teams.
- Leagues will now be locked during the final weeks of the season. As a result players will not accumulate additional bonus points and will not be promoted or demoted out of their current division during this period.
- This will allow players to focus on moving up in their current league without being promoted during the final weeks of a season, and having to fight their way up from the bottom ranks of their new higher league.
- Players can still utilize any bonus points they previously accumulated.
- Ladder data from the prior season can be viewed through the new Leagues & Ladders > Last Season page.
- New league icons have been introduced to indicate division rank. These will indicate the Top 8, 25 and 50 players in each division.
- Loss counts are no longer displayed in Profile and Ladder pages for players below Master League.