Yes, it is. And, do you like playing against them? No, right? So, why are you being THAT person?
I actually had this experience in stadium yesterday.
We were winning the game with two rounds done and on the third round randomly one player who was performing poorly on the winning team decides they want to just straight dump out of the match. Despite the fact that they left, the remaining four of us were actually continuing to win without the dead weight. However, all the reaper saw on our team was that there was a leaver and the penalty timer expired so he assumed it was a loss and also left. We could no longer continue to play at that point with just the three of us.
I didn’t know it wouldn’t count as a win for other team if I left and treated it just like comp and attempted to leave the match since it was a time waster at that point with only three of us there. I also would have had to wait for the other team to win all their rounds since they had zero rounds won at that point. So the smart thing to do was to also leave. I quickly found out that when I left that I was greeted only with the “rejoin game” option despite not being the person to ruin the match and leaving after the penalty timer.
I get why that’s there as a way of soft banning a leaver from requeuing but it shouldn’t apply to those who leave after the penalty timer, just like it doesn’t apply to those who leave after the timer in traditional comp.
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Because I want to win.
No. Not you. The people in the story outline in the OP. But specifically the person who RETURNED to cry about how the game was punishing them for being a leaver. I vaguely understand the one on the enemy a bit more because they are not likely aware of the “bug.”
Absolutely. I 100% agree. It’s not their fault that Mahvel is better.
Oh but that was the point I was making. OP didnt state the person who did this was the perosn who left and ruined the match.
I would agree that if they actually rejoined and was being toxic about it, that this is inappropriate, but there seems to be some assumption here that this person was the one at fault.
If they’re just one of the many people who left after the game told them they could leave, I dont think its in any way unreasonable that they’d want to be able to requeue.
It is 100% the devs fault in this case for punishing such a player, and I’m not condoning any toxicity from that player.
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That’s not my assumption, if you thought that. I figured it was someone who left after waiting out the 2 minute timer. To that end, I agree that they have nothing to do with the problem. I am just criticizing how they handled the situation.
I do not even blame the original leaver to be honest. My beef is solely with Blizzard for this piss poor design.
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I see, we are on the same page, then. 
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OP said he left after the 2:00 minute warning, he’s not the original leaver.
He’s annoyed (rightfully so) about being held hostage if someone on the team stays.
I blame Blizzard for this. Surely they can find someway to credit the non-leaving team with a win while the non-leavers can go find new games in peace without relying on player charity which is paper-thin at the best of times.
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Has traditional comp always been that way? I thought it would make you rejoin even if you left after the timer said you could.
Or maybe I’ve always been able to requeue, but I just thought that was because everyone always left those games, because who would be stupid enough to stay in them, lol.
I am positive you can requeue after the 2:00 minute warning in Competitive.
Thing is, it doesn’t appear to be a win condition for that to happen in Stadium and so it goes on until there’s no one left on a team where it closes down as though it was a ‘Not Enough Players’ error.
Yup. I had a teammate leave. I waited for timer and left. But I was stuck on Rejoin Match the for a minute or two. I ended up rejoining and the leaver had come back. Great, we won but made the game 2 rounds longer.
I also had a game were we should have lost with mercy rule and down 3 but the game didn’t end. It let me leave but the game continued. I had to restart the game to Rejoin Match and suffer another round.
The mercy rule requires a 15k credit difference after match 3. You probably killed a high bounty target to get the match to continue.
Why couldn’t we win the 4v5?
And this is why I’m not leaving. Because I can still win.
It is pretty clear that you do not care, but did you know that even to this day that if you leave in standard competitive after the 2 minute grace period that you do not actually make challenge progress?
I get you love this game and everything, but I only do the daily missions and events for the rewards and then go and play a better game. Or at least I did. You know what’s ironic? I actually love Stadium and have been playing more Overwatch than Mahvel despite this “bug.”
It is just annoying because the developers are so out of touch that when people complained about this, thought it was the amount of leavers that people were pointing out. So unbelievably stupid…
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I’m gonna level with you. I have won a 4v5 before. We were down 3-1 when they left, and through sheer determination and maybe some incidental good item/power picking, we were fighting tooth and nail for three straight to clinch it. The enemy team was NOT happy.
It’s possible, but I also understand it’s not that feasible.
That’s a cool feature. 
What is challenge progress? Do you make challenge progress even if you lose?
Well I agree with you, obviously, that you should get a win/progress even if everyone on the opposing team leaves, lol. It’s ridiculous that you don’t.
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Unless it’s stated to win, it should contribute. There was an issue with All-Star (complete 5 games queued for All Roles) where it didn’t complete for me unless I restarted the program between each match.
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Ah okay, I didn’t know that there were some things like that. I’ve literally never even looked at the challenges, lol.
I see why they would stay then, I suppose.