Raise the eligibility of playing comp from lvl 25 to lvl 50.
This will make it exhausting to lvl a fresh account.
From my leveling 5 freshie accounts experience, I have concluded that it takes about 14.5 hours(with group xp boost). Which takes about roughly 2 days to play comp. Its so easy to smurf. Although my peak SR is only 2565 (i like to consider myself a high platinum rank peak.) When smurfing I still find myself in games where I smash my opponent in my early competitive games after reaching level 25.
After pondering a multitude of different possible solutions for this problem, I have determined that the most effective one is the one I have just described.
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This topic comes up endlessly.
If Blizz actually cared, theyâd have fixed it years ago.
Alt/Smurf accs = $$$
By making it palatable to smurf (only 25 for comp) they encourage more ppl to try it/repeat the process.
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I agree with you but wanted to add the following.
When we say new accounts == $$$ that is true; what you hear from Blizz is âbut, but, but, queue timesâŚâ and those two concepts are indeed related. Think of it as code so when Blizz says âqueue timesâ we can read â$$$ from new accountsâ.
or just make lvl brackets. 1-300, 300-800, 800-1500, 1500-xxxx. that way u will stop getting smurfs as u naturally level up
It would make account selling much more popular.
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As much as this sounds nice, q times would go insane, if it wouldnât be completely useless due to grouping up with different levels. Which would basically end us exactly where we started. 
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It will just increase the price for leveling, cause demand is demand, you are trying to fix symphtomes. To fix smurfing you need to make motivation to play on main. Also smurfing is not an issue if you are not plat rank plat border hardstuck. IF you have a goal, you will eventually achieve it nomatter what.