I was under the impression if you DC/leave a comp game, you are banned for 15 minutes. Sometimes when we have a leaver, during the game or after the 2 minute period is up and everyone has left and game is over, I right click the leaver’s name and click add to group, you get the message “Unable to add players to your group while they are in competitive play.”
This gives me the impression they are already in another game somehow, even though they should sitting a 15 minute ban? I know they’re not just sitting at the role queue selection either because if you try to add someone to your group when they’re at that screen, you get a “Unable to add players to group when they are queued for competitive play” message.
What gives?
if you actually look up “OW leaver penalty” it says the penalty is only applied if you leave a game and don’t return within 60 seconds.
" Leaving a game early or being removed for inactivity prevents you from joining a new game until the original match has concluded—though you are able to rejoin an in-progress game within one minute to avoid a penalty."
So this leads me to believe you can dodge the penalty by leaving, waiting about 50 seconds, clicking rejoin, then leave again etc
It also means a penalty is not applied to people who leave at the end of games where the 60 seconds never becomes a factor.
EDIT: if ^ isn’t the case then I couldn’t tell ya. I seriously doubt there’s a legit way to dodge the leaver penalty. That’s been a rule that’s been auto enforced without exception with no appeals possible since forever.