And even today had my daily dose of ow problems that devs won’t look at 
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What are the odds on the 2 Smurfs just being 2 people that played really well
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I just check their account playtime both with just 3 hours into comp and 51 in qp , diamond in dps unranked in supp
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So some diamonds whooped some plats? Not unheard of. And how are they smurfing if they’re punching up?
Low playtime new acc, simple, ah right you guys keep calling them ‘‘alts’’
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I sm playing so little whenever I play (dia peak) I have gold games. 
not my fault I have to grind countless games.
I don’t care about my rank nr as long as I have enjoyable games. and well semi smurfing is kinda fun ngl.
so I kinda force myself to play as little comp as possible to keep it that way.
usually just placements and as soon as a win gives me an entire division I stop.
Thanks for contributing to the problem
When I see those smurf games I just say to myself ‘‘gg next’’
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I remember my first 6v6 oq game when everyone was all across the ranks.
1st game circuit royale.
my team says: Carefully enemy widow is t500.
So I go widow to see, yeah he is good.
but not unbeatable.
what makes me mad?
my team knows I am plat, and still thinks only one thing : Why is widow not winning the 1v1?
if it even was a 1v1…
I am not mad at the t500 widow, opposite actually.
It was a amazing experience.
just sad my Reinhardt expected a plat to beat a t500 that plays in a 2v1 against a plat.
(I was the only positive player on my entire team with more elims than the entire team combined without me.)
and yet, I was the main target to be flamed.
Enemies couldn’t disagree less.
Widow even said I played amazing considering the skill difference. Like I didn’t peak like a idiot etc.
and was never destined to win anyway.
So I wouldn’t even blame the smurf but the team for idk having no eyes. 
I do agree with you that some aren’t necessary, those lowering their rank AND poop talk the lower players.
(like my masters / gm buddy makes a silver account and what does he do? “How are you guys so bad?” Ähm dude, you play in silver with silvers? Why you expect master teamwork? Never understood that aspect.
all I am doing is not go out of my way to hit dia at all cost and accept I can’t win them all.
not always going 120% because its exhausting.
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guess is the diff betweeen us, I don’t find a single enjoyable thing in that ‘‘experience’’, I see a smurf? I just say ‘great, another ruined match deathcam simulator, not goin to sweat or try in such games where the outcome is already known in the spawn’’
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Regardless, A diamond playing well in plat is not smurfing.
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That’s even worse than smurfing as you’re deliberately soft throwing.
Definitely reportable in competitive and significantly compounds any smurfing issues.
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Don’t get me wrong, I play but for sure I won’t even sweat over a lost match. Is not that I stay afk or jump off the map on purpose lol.
Smurfing and having alt accounts (even if to me it keep being the same thing) is way worse, if people won’t smurf then other people can learn and enjoy the game more, is a natural consequence
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Deliberately jumping off the map and AFK would be hard throwing, I said soft throwing. That would be things like not putting in the effort you normally would; poorer positioning, not attempting to avoid feeding, not caring to group, not helping your team mates, not being bothered to peel, and countless other examples.
Not putting in 100% because you incorrectly believe the outcome is predetermined by looking at a profile or similar is definitely soft throwing and reportable. Many smurfs will derank accounts doing exactly the same thing.
If people don’t smurf other people won’t just think ‘meh, why gotta sweat here’’ and just play lazily, nothing to be reported except the person smurfing.
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Why, because they played lazily just like the others?
I just got put in a game with a 5-stack (all same player icon even and all with drive label) and I asked my team who was grouped and we had 1 duo. I managed to leave with 1s left on the assembly timer (qp).
How was that going to be anything but a stomp?
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They played on a new account on lower ranks just to feed their ego or ‘‘to learn a new hero’’ (that can be done on their main accounts by the way) or to do some crazy ‘‘ur2gm’’ educational’’ stuff)
for this, I told you I won’t sweat on a already not winnable game
Because you would have been on the team and you would have lost the match for them before it started?
No, it absolutely cannot.
If I go into a GM game and decide I’m going to learn Hanzo (one of my least played characters), I am going to get utterly destroyed as my Hanzo gameplay is several whole ranks lower to say, my Tracer. That would literally be throwing and likely my team are going to report me for that. I am absolutely going to make a new account to play Hanzo on to avoid that and ruining other people’s games. That is one of the reasons why alt accounts are not against the ToS.
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This is soft throwing and reportable, as I told you.
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