Pls go in EU server into 1v1 GM Contender and chceck first 3 profiles. 8-9+k MMR, Custom games in match history and left in 0.0s.
What is this bug??
Hi there!
I just came to post the same thing but for NA.
The top 3 spots are barcodes that have unreal high MMR and only have 5 games played. All their games are custom with just them in it and they win the game immediately. Clearly some type of bug is giving them actual MMR when they perform this action.
This is also happening on the Archon ladder⌠the top spot has 10K MMR! and only 1 win.
Doesnât affect me as Iâm just a garbage D1 player, but clearly something is going on here.
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im not going to make any call outs becasue thats against the forum rules but im going to say two unrelated words for no reason.
account boosting.
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This seems obvious, but how is it actually working? Are they just randomly getting MMR out of nowhere? Does it have to be a fresh account?
Idk I tried a couple things to replicate it to verify with no success. It appears theyâre creating empty custom melee games by themselves then leaving and getting MMR. Theyâre doing it at a rate of about 80 games an hour so itâs nothing complicated but nothing Iâve tried has generated the effect.
But yeah, Blizzard NEEDS to fix this. The border bug was bad enough but we could at least lean on MMR being accurate. When, not if, this bug leaks to the public at large MMR will become meaningless and ladder will be completely ruined.
Nope. At least one account that is abusing this bug to get impossibly high MMR off â5 gamesâ has been active since 2019. So itâs not related to provisional MMR. To make things even more confusing: their match history doesnât list the 5 games they supposedly played in actual 1v1. Iâm wondering if this is something where someone figured out how to exploit the backend API or is intercepting and modifying packets SC2 is exchanging.
There must be a program running behind that cheats MMR system by winning in custom game. But overall nice and harmless bug.
Not sure how undermining the ladder rating system is nice or harmless. If the steps for this go public there will be no legitimate players in GM anymore.
How are custom melee games giving MMR?
Itâs unknown at this time, but itâs evident by the accounts themselves. 9k+ MMR and a listing of nothing but 0 second custom games in the Match History
If anyone figures it out, please let me know, i want to be top GM aswell, ty 
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The funny thing is that now the Bronze/Silver/Gold players when told about their low ranking will retort that the M/GMâers are fakes and frauds.
It getâs better and better.
Yea, i mean, ill never trust anyone on this forum anymore. If i say roach counters void ray and you disagree cause u are GM and u know better, i wont even consider me being wrong.
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They are not gaining mmr with custom melee games, but they just make multiple accounts to que 1v1 to each other so that they can boost 1 account.
they fill the match history with custom games with 0 minutes so that they can hide this process. There are some people who do this for years, i know a korean guy who did this in 2018 so that he can sell his 7k mmr accounts. I know this because he posted how to do this in detail in a korean sc2 community. what they basically do is have like 4 accounts with simmilar mmr and que against each other with multiple pcs at night when there are less people playing on the ladder. Anyone can make 6k mmr accounts very easily with this process.
You can also avoid getting matched vs wrong person by running sc2 on windowed mode. As soon as you know you are getting matched vs other people, just press X of the windowed screen while the count down is going on and it will turn off sc2 and the match will never start. (shows the player is disconnected message to the opponent)
as for 9k mmr, the process is just the same, just make 5 6k mmr accounts and do the same thing.
The accounts have 5 AutoMM games. Thereâs no combination of MMR you could do that would result in 9k+ MMR in 5 games with how the MMR algorithm works. Thereâs some other exploit occurring.
they just leave division so it shows 5 games. when you look into their race statistics there are more.
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Blizzard probably wonât do anything but getting a 12k achievement, 1k coop ascension, exploiterâs account banned would sound vindicating.
I told you, theyâve played more than that. You canât even get into GM unless youâve played 30 games every 21 days, during current season. One of them only has like around 40 games. But, if this is something theyâve done every season, then he was already starting at a high MMR.
What makes it kinda weird or like âreally, thoughâ is the fact they did this simultaneously on every server. I know the season ends in a week or two, so it kinda makes sense. But, still⌠itâs a legit conspiracy if they waited and ranked up all these accounts for this precise day/time. Itâs just kinda funny, if so. And like I said, unless my eyes were playing tricks on me⌠I believe their archon rating went up without even having a new game recorded in their match history. And, it went up quite a bitâŚ
Imagine using any method to abuse enough to get over 10k MMR⌠Next level for sure.
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first of all none has ever hit 9k mmr and if you actually see the barcode 1v1 history its 0
second of all viber and other gms infact said that its either a bug or a hack
third of all you cant get 9k mmr with just 5 wins and played many custom games to get it.
your dumb and many proved you are
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exactly even with 30 games a day you cant hit 9k mmr or 10k mmr not even serral or maru has
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blizzard doesnt even care since hots come out