I don’t know what it is but professional basketball is kinda gatekept by the best basketball players
I don’t know what it is but every time the masters rolls around it’s the same 50-100 golfers
I don’t know what it is but every year Harvard is gatekept by the 4.5 GPA students
??? Is this a serious thread? Do you think it’s a coincidence that Kalvish is rank 1 every season on every class? Or do you think he’s that way because he is better than everyone that plays the game?
Rank 1 isn’t “gatekept” by rank 1s. They’re rank 1s because they’re the best. That’s why they’re rank 1.
Is this thread a joke?
“HOW COME THERE IS A RANK 1 TITLE FOR THE PLAYERS THAT ARE CONSISTENTLY, INDESPUTABLY THE BEST PLAYERS”
Did I say it should be changed? Or did I say that it’s effectively an impossible wall if you don’t have the ability to play for 8hrs a day for years on end?
Or have access to Kalvish, or 8 alts that you log between to climb.
Acting like this isn’t the case is peak humor though, do better.
Nah, but you cherrypicked a response to a post about wintrading.
The 8 is definitely hyperbole, I feel like most people just leapfrog 2 with a 3rd to play with whomever
??? I never said that it wasn’t the case. I just said that the r1 players aren’t all no-lifers. They DO put several hours a day into the game, though. That’s why they’re at the top.
I’m just trying to illustrate that it’s not some massive wintrading/RMT conspiracy that people are so fond of parroting.
I am saying that a majority of R1 players (95%+) fall in the following categories:
Have little to no responsibilities irl, and thus can dedicate an insane amount of time to playing. This is not true for a majority of people.
Have a large swathe of other R1s to play with. Again not true for a majority of people
Have multiple alts (Bubblebuddy has how many paladins, Zentheon and Shards have how many locks and ferals?) and q 1000s of games for 7 seasons in a row.
The point being that the odds are stacked against you in a way that makes it effectively impossible to push in to r1 range without at least 2 of the above things being true. (Numerous alts, insane amount of time, or being in the crowd of r1s that do).
Palumor is an exact example of that.
Win trading / rmt @ r1 unlikely.
Question for you:
How many true, 0 time r1 players that don’t have 5+ alts are getting r1 this season? Full glad team, no R1s on the team at all. No alts.
Okay, thank you for clarifying and I apologize that I misunderstood!
I think that’s a pretty fair analysis!
I just want to articulate the point that Fewer responsibilities =/= sweaty no life.
I feel like most of the r1 players are just college-adjacent people playing the game in their excessive free time.
What I don’t care for is when so many people lose a game sub 2k and go, “oh those guys are sweaty tryhards” because they faded a fear or something. I know it’s a semantic difference, but to use the same verbiage to describe an r1 player and some rando at 2k is vastly different.
Also I agree with this 100%. I know a couple teams did it in slands, but they all got banned and titles removed.
I don’t think any!
I think that to get r1 you need literally years of xp and hours dedicated to improving. It’s literally inaccessible to 99.9% of the population by design, so people who DO have years of exp and hours of practice will almost always perform better.
i think its close to 0 and only happens if some high multi glad xp teams comp is significantly overtuned or some kind abuse happens. correct me if i am wrong but ive seen ppl complain in the past saying the r1 is a club and u wont be allowed in it unless they decide so. thats all i heard, not saying it true.
You can definitely get in to it, because a lot of them aren’t unbeatable. But I have seen and been witness to people sniping and dodging.
But if you’re like Metaphors for example, you’ll get ostracized after a while and then no one will play with you.
The r1 crowd is a fairly toxic group of players though, and anyone who argues that point is critically unaware of what all their favorite players were up to between 2012-2020.
Zev for example was a well known botter and ddosser in wod. Cdew had videos up of him for years on his YT, unsure if that’s still the case.
Here’s a link to Zev (Idiotferal) kick botting in wod: on mobile so can’t link properly. Mind you he did this to all 3 of his R1 titles in wod. They were also his first titles, yet now he’s known as an insane feral and everyone wants to play with him.
https ://youtu.be/vR2XIkerUzc
Wizk was a well known cheater, in tournaments and on ladder. Also a ddosser.
I’ll stop there, but other R1s are incredibly racist, sexist and wildly toxic. They’re all basically meta level but some of them hide it better.