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Season 3 Now Locked / Custom Map Spotlight
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Season 3 Now Locked 
Attention, StarCraft II ladder warriors! Season 3 is now locked. At the end of each ladder season, leagues are “locked,” which means players can no longer be promoted or demoted out of their current league or division, and bonus pools will stop growing. That’s no reason to quit playing: even after leagues are locked, players will still be able to play out their remaining bonus pool and compete for standing within their divisions until the season ends two weeks later. The matchmaking skill ratings which determine league promotion and demotion will also continue to update during the lock, so games played during the lock still count toward Season 4 league placement. Now that the lock is in effect, Season 3 will soon come to an end. We’ll be turning over to Season 4 during the week of October 24. Season milestone rewards will be awarded and bonus pools will reset with the beginning of the new season. Hidden skill ratings used for matchmaking and league placement will carry over from the previous season though, so players who have completed placement matches in a previous season will only need to play one new placement match after Season 4 starts. Beginning with Season 4, two changes are coming to future ladder seasons: • Seasons will now last for approximately two months. • Grandmaster league placement time will be reduced to one week (from two weeks) to account for the reduced season length.
____________________________________________________ Custom Map Spotlight 
StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty has a talented and robust mapmaking community, and every day the number of published maps hitting Battle.net continues to grow. To better highlight some of these great creative works, we're featuring new player-made maps each week and placing them at the top of the custom games list in the game client for you to download and play. Check out this week's featured custom maps to see what's available! Map Title: MageCraft Category: Magic Fight Mode: Clan TTG Author: Aphotic Description: A PvP Arena where players get to choose every skill they wish to use. From Fireballs that push players back to the Gravity Flux that pulls everything around it into it. Using the spells players buy and upgrade to their liking, and a large amount of player skill, the objective is to dominate the arena. Map Title: Space Zombies Category: SZS Mode: SZS Author: Nathan Tripp Description: Space Zombies is a remake of map from the original StarCraft. In this survival game, players look to utilize their skills and teamwork to defend their team’s base from 50 waves of zombies. Have a favorite custom map you would like to share? Then let us know! To submit a custom map for review, just leave a comment with the name of the map and its author below. Interested in custom maps? If you want to learn more from a brand-new educational show focused on custom map creation, you can check out MapCraft – State of the Terrain. Listen in as Josh “prodiG” Folland and Jacqueline “Versailles” Geller dive into the nitty-gritty of both competitive and custom map creation on ESV TV on Sundays at 11:00 a.m. PDT. |
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