Starcraft 2 news » 2016 Season 2 Lock Coming Soon

The 2016 Ladder Season 2 is coming to an end, and the ladders will soon be locking in order to determine final placements for the season.

Here’s what this means for you:

• During the season lock, you can’t be promoted or demoted from your current league or division, and your bonus pool stops growing.
• Though you’ll be locked to a league and division, you'll still be able to play out your remaining bonus pool, and compete for standing within your division until the end of the season.
• If you're pursuing a league promotion, you still have a chance to get there. The 2016 Season 2 lock will go into effect for the Europe region of Battle.net on Monday, June 13.

During the 2016 Season 2 lock, the hidden ratings used to determine promotions and demotions will continue to update, as well as be used for matchmaking purposes. Remember, your games during the lock still count—if you play significantly better or worse than your assigned league at the time of the lock, you may find yourself in a different league when 2016 Season 3 begins (after you play your first placement match).

The third season of 2016 ladder competition will begin on Monday, June 20. Season milestone rewards will be locked in at this time, and bonus pools will reset. Matchmaking and league placement will continue using results from the previous season. As we previously mentioned, we intend for Season 3 to be a rather short season to accomodate our WCS league as well as impending changes, such as the new map pool which we are very excited to see used in the game.

2016 Season 3 also applyies a free character name change to all accounts that do not have one available at that time. Character name changes do not stack (you can only have one free name change at a time), so if you’ve been thinking about changing your name in StarCraft II, you’ll want to do so as soon as possible.