The game client crashed (Rendering Device Lost pop up under the client window) and I was unable to rejoin in time. I believe that there was a 1:30:00 “Cool-down” for this which was not the usual 10 minutes. I waited it out but, after the cool down expired, competitive play remained unavailable. I checked for any outages, but there was none, and some of my friends are online.
Edit: I found something interesting at: Lost Sr and banned, not sure why? - #6 by Kaedi-11739, which appears to be the case (See WyomingMist’s reply) How do I know for sure why I was suspended or banned? I switched PC’s (My older one is slower / more stable but for extended play gives a normal playing experience)
If the competitive option remains locked without a timer and displays the message “Unable to play Competitive Play while suspended or banned” then that is a season ban. Any other message means there is a factor other that being suspended or message currently in effect that locks out Competitive, such as being in a search queue for a different game mode or playing on an account below level 25.
Thanks for the reply. So I’m unable to play Competitive for the rest of the season because the game crashed? Am I missing something? I understood even the hour and a half timeout, for penalty’s sake. That was within human reasoning.
What?
Edit: Competitive Mode is playable again. Nevermind; Maybe server latency dishing out “Game permissions”. Whew!
It takes at least 6 leaver violations to trigger a season ban. So yeah if it was just a one-time issue you should be good as long as you corrected any crashes before resuming play.