SMURFS REPORT - W22 & 23-2020
How to read : cf. above post
Quickie :
Over 67 users played :
- 22,39% of confirmed smurfs
(19,40% of freelosing smurfs + 2.99% of non freelosing smurfs).
- 77,61% to 59,7% of regular players.
I ended up defining criteria for non freelosing smurfs, as even if quite in minority, there are some of them which were definitely not regular players :
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Total career games too low for MMR ( < 50 for platinum, < 100 for diamond)
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≥ 2 leagues ≥ 2 times with the same race.
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≤ 2 leagues of his opponent outside of provisional MMR.
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≥ 75% global 1v1 winrate with ≥ 20 games played.
I have also revised my criteria for freelosing smurfs, as in the future, I will only take in account those with ≥ 3 freeloses in recent history (rather than ≥ 2 previously), to better differentiate smurfs from raging players.
And now, for the fun facts :
- A lot of smurfs go for the default avatar, but when they don’t, they interestingly often go for female avatars, and choose female names as battletags (such as Monika, or Marion for example). You’re being matchmaked with a player with Thatcher’s avatar and “Cindy” as battletag ? You can already guess you’re being trolled.
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- I’ve become quite efficient at spotting them, so efficient that I could with a reasonable accuracy sometimes guess that my opponent is a smurf right since the loading screen. And so, as I mentioned in the first post, go for extra risky strategies in order to defeat them. And… well it worked more often than I would have guessed :
Smurf GG — Postimages
Smurf G — Postimages
The last one in particular made my day : he had such a particularly stupid battletag that I remembered having confirmed him as a smurf a few months ago. So I decided not to play into his web, and went for my first ladder proxy 3 rax ever. It succeeded better than I thought it would (though the transition was trashy AF), and so the guy, who was from a higher league, started to doubt that I, myself, was from my displayed league.
He cried about it for about 5 whole minutes ingame, and then continued afterwards. He just couldn’t accept the idea of being defeated by a regular player of one full league under his real level ( Bakana ! Yurusanai ! ).
A 100% confirmed regularly freelosing smurf… who whined about being trolled by a league even above his (which was already one tier or two above played MMR). I had found, a smurf whining about smurfs.
That remembered me about one user who claimed on another thread that smurfing was fun. Well in fact, I think that for smurfs winning is fun ; while being trolled is just as unpleasant to them than to regular users. Proof being the sore whining specimen I just encountered.