When I was playing in Lijiang Tower 1-1, the electricity was cut. I waited for a couple of minutes, electricity was back, turned on the computer and started the game and it was over. I lost 50 SR points and suspended for like 5 minutes.
Recovery from disconnecting is identical to recovery from decay54. That is, after a single disconnect a player will have an SR buff for about 12 games until his SR has caught back up to what it would have been if he’d never disconnected. Because leaver recovery is identical to decay recovery, it is likely that MMR is unaffected by leaving, just as it is unaffected by decay.
The penalty starts small because Blizzard knows players can have issues, however they want to enforce that being ignorant of technical issues is not an excuse. Please see this post for further details:
It’s not a software or hardware problem. There was no electricity. It’s not something I can fix. I know the other team members can have problems but you cannot prevent this.
Well in that case you have to provide proof that you didn’t personaly sabotage your hardware/cable/interenet connection in order to, let’s say “avoid sr loss for a, let’s say losing game”
You see what I mean?
If there was any single possible way of avoiding sr loss, it would have been abused to the maximum.
If blizzard came and said “Now we can see whether it was hardware problem that caused you to dc and therefor you won’t lose sr…” Everyone, EVERYONE would all of a sudden cut their cables/Unplugged the pc etc. in a losing game.
50sr is a really really small hit to take compared to the opposite anarchy that would ensue.