How many people purchased an extra account to increase their SR rank?

People say that quick play affects competitive. Those people are wrong. See Initial Competitive Skill Rating, Decrypted

To answer the OP’s question, when my main placed 1300, I made an alt who placed at 2156. After playing on both accounts for a hundred games, the gold account remained gold, and the sliver account remained silver (Overwatch Forums).

I then switched back to my main, almost full time. It took me a few hundred more games for it to catch up to my alt (in gold).

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