Timthetatman gets GM after not playing for a year

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So how does the SR system work again.

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Long story short: It just doesnt work.

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He is a total potato.
But potato that plays all the time, so…
Dedication wins lulz

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If even a potato can do it, surely the real pro’s on the forums can?
(I know he isn’t perfect, but i think he’s a lot better than the average forum user)

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They are working on the SR. This is only a Beta Season and are JUST using it for data.

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If even a potato can do it, surely the real pro’s on the forums can?
(I know he isn’t perfect, but i think he’s a lot better than the average forum user)

If average forum player is a gold, cause gold is the most average rank, then he is way better than those.

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wasnt he legit boosted to start with?

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He did his placements with seagull and emongg and placed in masters i think (where he was a year ago too) Dont think anything is wrong with it. He played like thousands of hours Apex, Fortnite etc meanwhile

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He got Masters with his dps placements with Torb and Sym. He was playing with Seagull.

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He’s a gm lvl player

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He’s just being boosted by a bunch of streamers on their 4th accounts. He is pretty bad honestly.

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This. Like… The fact that people actually think he is decent shows how… Not decent… They are.

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Same thing happened to a friend of mine. He has not touched the game in over a year, lost all his placements horribly except for one (because he forgot how to play) and yet still placed like 4100

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It’s called being boosted by top500 players. He queues with them while doing placements.

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That plays all the time? He hasn’t played for a year and even then he was a potato.

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That’s what ruined 2-2-2, Blizzard’s inability to place people in their respective ranks.

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You get placed close to where you ended the prevoius season no matter how long ago the season was, modified slightly by performance plus or minus a 100 or so SR.

Performance has never really mattered during placements apart from your very first season.

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You must be bronze to believe that. Having seen his Placements and watching Jaynes guess my SR a lot I would say he plays on a 3.1k level and thats considering he played against higher level players. Ignoring his enemies rank I would have thought he was PLAT.

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His 4 stack needed to switch accounts a few times because they were getting too high to play with him. He is a funny guy but he is the definition of boosted.

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That plays all the time? He hasn’t played for a year and even then he was a potato.

Playing other games also counts towards developing the game sense.