Leavers should be penalized harder

[Comixfan-6222]

@DoctorUlt-1455

@Comixfan-6222

It’s unfair to people that get disconnected due to unscheduled Internet service interruptions, power blackouts, unexpected hardware failures and the like to even be penalised at all, and you want to penalise them more?

No.

I respectfully disagree. If you don’t have a reliable connection at all, you shouldn’t be playing competitive.

You can have a reliable connection and still get unscheduled Internet service interruptions, power blackouts, unexpected hardware failures, etc.

@DoctorUlt-1455

But we all know a better fix to this. Just get one player from the queue to complete the match if someone leaves within 1 minute.

Yes, the answer to leavers in Competitive already exists in game in other modes - backfill.

Competitive needs backfill

Having a competitive mode without anything in place to help a team recover from a leaver/disconnect is an absolute travesty. Blizzard needs to add backfill to competitive. If someone leaves or disconnects from a match, then someone else can load in to take their place. Have a “reserves bench” system in place for if the disconnected player reconnects (thus allowing for them to avoid the leaver penalty) and give them the option to rejoin the match at the start of a new map. Make competitive ba…