First off all, yes smurfing is cheating (which was confirmed by blizzard several times), but you newbies keep misusing the term smurfing as it meaning anyone in a rank lower than they normally play in.
Smurfing originated in WC and only portrays players, who actively does something to influence them being matched vs new players, which in that game meant making new accounts (calling them the names of the smurf family pappasmurf etc), pretending to be bad players, play bad on purpose to then win the game later on with pure dominance, (sometimes losing some of the games on purpose).
There is only one way this equals in OW, which is buying a new account and throwing to achieve a lower rank than you would have gotten, if you weren´t deliberately performing worse.
Otherwise it is 100% fair and is the reason why blizzard does not and never will punish this (Called alternate accounts)
Please educate yourself on, what smurfing means and where it originated from OP.
Which the only way you can circumvent it, is by throwing or performing badly on purpose, which are both already banable, jeff litterally mentioned it during 2-2-2 release.
However a system not placing a t500 player in t500 instantly cause he won 10 placement matches is called a “good matchmaker”, to prevent boosted scenarios from happening. Meanwhile these players have drastically increased SR gains on wins ( i have had 100 sr wins before), if they keep up the winning and performance, the higher they go, which means they are moved out even faster.
Jeff has said this time on and on again. No reason to make terrible assertions, about something that is objectively false.
You are essentially blaming a pro sporst player, for being too good for his first other sports newbie tournament. Which isn´t his fault, but he has to start the same way everyone else does.
You absolutely were, try and understand, what you actually wrote, buddy.
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This whole post is you explaining, what deranking and throwing is, you do not understand this and equate it to this
“It depends on if you consider being better than your opponent cheating”
Since they are not in charge of the matchmaker or can influence how they are ranked except performing worse on purpose, means that all other forms of roflstomping is them going through the matchmaker placing them, the exact way it was coded too.
Please learn to understand, what you are even posting.
IT isn´t cheating, has never been and is addressed by blizzard as being fair game.
If you wanna argue you can be mad at Blizzard/matchmaker for placing players to badly or not fixing their ranking fast enough (even when Jeff has already also addressed this a lot)
Otherwise you are not arguing anything but you being salty and blaming someone, who is doing nothing wrong and can´t influence it, what so ever (alternate accounts).
I do care, cause you are wrongly using the word Smurfing, which you should learn instead of keeping on making posts about something that already is the case (actual smurfing is banable), done deal.
Try again. Read through the entire conversation and take in the context. You have no idea what you’re even talking about. I’ll give you a hint, you’re closer to agreeing with me than you realize.
I am closer to agreeing with the point you raise, but the quote that you make it towards is a direct indication of you making a point about any forms of being better than your opponent is illegal and the OP, has made a point about this as well, your point is skewed by the fact, that you are making it towards people that quite litterally claim that being too skilled should be a ban able offense and mildly supporting it.
If you truly think only circumvention of the system should be ban able, then you should be disagreeing with the premise that OP raises as it is 100% not that.
Hey your mouse is better, reported.
Hey you are better than me, reported.
Hey i only have 30 fps, reported.
Hey my space key is broken, reported.
Hey i can’t aim, reported.
Hey, i’m drunk, reported.
Unfair advantage = beeing better than me = unfair advantage, bc I’m not better than myself.
I couldn’t rephrase them to make them apply all the time, its not super easy, unlessüyou remove the advantage part and call it, not using anything outside the overwatch game code and your personal skill.
Just look at me, i litteraly want to throw but i can’t, i always give everything.
I litteraly dropped from high plat to mid gold and i bet you, that playing a bit more comp, i would climb like a smurf.
Its simply due to my terrible consistency.
I can play like a diamond or even beat diamonds.
But never can i do this every game.
Some games are litteraly mid-low gold in performance and i know that i played terrible.
But i can’t just flip a switch and be consistent. I wish i could.
The problem is that matchmaking is determining your skill overall not your ability in individual scenarios.
Some players have far higher mechanical ability than they do decision making (and vice versa).
This leads to a big perception problem where two accurately placed individuals would each seem bad to each other.
The good mechanical player would see the strategic player and say “he can’t aim, he doesn’t belong here”
The good strategic player would see the mechanical player and say “He is constantly making poor choices, he doesn’t belong here”
Add that to the fact that players can also just have bad games, normally decent player gets ruffled and has a bad game. Most players see that and think “he doesn’t belong here” rather than “ah, bad game for him”
I wish i could.