Novice to Grandmaster run Sparky Arai

[dense anchor]

Lets go, premium novice account i keep my settings and map secret till i reach GM.

[icy geyser]

Are you going to provide updates?

[dense anchor]

Just reached intermediate, 13 games played with a win ratio of 76%.

I play against everyone that joins my lobbies, only if i know them i will kick them out of the lobby.
This ain’t going te be the fastest run, but i want to see what win rate is needed to reach 1v1 GM and how much time it is gonna take.

[quasi dove]

Can u give me some tips on 1v1s ? I play caps prog most of the time

[icy geyser]

what settings exactly? A lot can be fixed just with some minor setting changes

[icy geyser]

I would also recommend watching this video as a great way of learning initially. You can also check out a lot of his other videos for more specific instructions for other settings https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDRJ3rcKFjo&t=6s

[dense anchor]

Reached expert

I needed 24 games for that

12 Novices
1 Beginner
3 Intermediate
1 Expert
7 Master

Winrate: 79%

[quasi dove]

Thx 🙇🏻‍♀️

[echo kettle]

I’ll give you some tips for 1 v 1 prog caps. (Which are the settings I play and I usually end up around 30-40 ranked on the leaderboard each season. I play auto set up, no fog, blizzards on. 1) choose a smaller map to play upon. 2) I typically add two bots to the game. To me this balances out turn order, otherwise the person who goes first typically has an advantage. 3) be patient and protect your capital. 4) keep your capital open for when you want to make a cap run. 5) if opportunities arise to take a cap, do it IF you can protect it. 6) try to prevent your opponent from holding a bonus. 7) realize that the bots that are in the game are great opportunities for kills to take their cards when the time is right. Those extra cards in progressive can really (and often do) lead to you taking your opponent’s capital. 8) if you get a long game (doesn’t happen often but it can) you may need to card block your opponent. Most importantly, have fun and good luck!

[quasi dove]

Thx a lot 🫡

[dense anchor]

Reached master

I needed 38 games for that

17 Novices
2 Beginners
4 Intermediates
5 Experts
10 Masters

Win rate still 79%

[marsh moth]

Performance like so far should bring you to GM in about 100 games. Max out at about 30.5k-31k.

[dense anchor]

Yes, for this i will need to play more games then novice till master. Would be nice if i will reached it below 100 games. Over the max out i am gonna take i decision if i reach GM.

[rugged topaz]

79% win rate will get you further than 31k I would think. Closer to 35k if you can end on a winstreak

[marsh moth]

If you get lucky a lot is possible. Difference between 31k and 35k is quite big if your performance is that of 31k, since you’ll gain little. I just extrapolated from 11,425 after 24 and 16,521 after 38. Which matches a consistent win rate and opponent level.

[median hearth]

[rugged topaz]

Cool visual, thanks for sharing. I guess it really depends on the exact win %. If he could get to 85% instead of 79% it would make a big difference

[dense anchor]

I am back to expert level, a lot of strong players joined me games, the games were fun, but not so good for my ranking 🙂

[echo kettle]

Sparky, I am guessing there are a lot of wolves running about as novices and beginners this season. Just a thought… good luck with your run.

[ebon tiger]

Yeah, plus with the leaderboard split, you can play FFA Expert-GMs, and it only reward as 1v1 novice, despite being far harder than a true novice

[dense anchor]

thank you, i am playing against lot of master ranked players with this settings, so i think that is a positive thing.

[ebon tiger]

I had a master today join my ranked game, and immediately go offline

Hope you get some of that luck in your run

[dense anchor]

Thank you, yes free points, always nice. I had that with a player when i played supermax, every time when he was player 2, he bot out.
It was a skilled player when he was player 1.

[ebon tiger]

Yeah, back when you could see stats, often the players with a very large number of losses, compared to their number of hours, would be surprisingly good when they were winning, since they've played so many games, but super-fast to rage quit the moment anything slightly didn't go their way

[dense anchor]

I abort this run. I wanted to see if it was possible to reach GM with this settings without filtering and with not a crazy amount of games.

The setting were Caps hide and Seek

Command base 1CX
Auto placement
Capital Conquest
Fog On:
Blizzards: On
Portals: No
Fixed
No bots
No Alliances
Neutral activity
True Random

If have come to master rank, but the last leap is gonna take to many games at my liking.

The positive about this settings is that a played against much more Master then when i play for example Jules Vernes.

This was a little bit to luck based, with decent players joining the lobby.

[ebon tiger]

How many wins/losses did you get in total?

[dense anchor]

Won 85 from the 125 games, so a win rate of 68%.

My win rate with Jules Vernes is around 93% (also play who ever joins, exception if i know them (from discord)

[cunning root]

Wait a minute were you that guy who won a 25 v 21 cap against me for the win?

[dense anchor]

If you want to share you're Risk name i can look it up (can also with DM if you don't want to share it here) 🙂

[cunning root]

Did you have a pink avatar with the free female avatar?

[dense anchor]

Yes

[cunning root]

DAMN YOU

[dense anchor]

See, it's to luck based 🙂