Smurfing for content like Uthermal

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@Adûnâi-2366

Define a “smurf”.

Smurfs, the good, the bad & the ugly

@HungryJ-1756

I made a new account. Named it “noob sausage”, and crushed opponents for days. I never had so much fun

@lllIlIlIlIl-1983

I once made an account with the clan tag and the name “grinder”. It was good fun.

It’s not that rare that I face players with names such as URanus, UrMom, AIJKILLU etc. , and if they get close to losing, if they don’t accuse me of smurfing too (which all of a sudden seems like some quite unfair behavior to them) it often appears like a surprise to them that they’d be recognized as smurfs.

Seriously, it’s beyond me how stupid some can get to be.

@abs-2628

The truth about smurfing is very simple. People in GM are simply bored and need to be more entertaining. Beastyqt explained in one of his videos that if you get to top 25 gm you are literally playing against 5-10 same people every day. That surely must be boring. Thats why most GM players are trying to be entertaining by doing some sort of B2GM series or smurfing on alternate accounts. However even this is not a valid excuse for smurfing - it has very bad impact on overall SC2 society:
GM smurfs master player - masters are frustrated and start smurfing diamond players. Diamonds are frustrated and start smurfing plats etc - it is a domino effect. In the end ladder is literally full of people sitting in various leagues with completey different skill levels they should be.

@abs-2628

Yeah sure because you run into a smurf in 1v1 maybe in one game and then you run into another. You believe that there are only FEW smurfs in 1v1 games ?

Absolutely true.

The best part being when they do smurf one or two leagues below them, and then complain there are less and less players active in their original leagues.

As Einstein said :
« Two things are infinite, the universe, and human stupidity. And I’m not sure about the universe. »