Not sure how they did it, but they did.
It was always expected to work at 0 MMR games, but because it is rated, it’s unlikely to be worth it more than a few games in.
Requiring members to remain at specific ratings is a lot to ask of said members.
But if they were all committed to staying together or not playing then it would be possible. Also, if they had double accounts for each. One is the off time, the other is the organized push then it could work too.
This is Thaedreu levels of conspiracy.
And how exactly did you determine that they were a sync group? I bet they didn’t announce it.
One option is, 100+ players queue sync and manage to get 4 in the same solo bg(totally made up example). If they are split up, for the purpose of gaining conquest points, the smaller premade can win trade by gameplay sabotage, if they are all on the same team they all try to win as usual. If you are on discord with labeled channels it wouldnt be hard to swap channels so everyone in the same instance is able to speak and hear.
For the record, win trading is scum behavior, as is sync queueing, even if it is allowed.
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I do epics, we’re lucky to get 40 people queuing at the same time.
And then what happens after a few games?
Do the people who won more just sit around waiting for the losers to rank up?
Or do they actively try to rank down?
They may be able to sync for the first few games, but eventually they will be in different brackets or have to sit out games waiting for other players to reach their bracket, this isn’t going to be feasible except for the most competitive of groups, in which case, they may as well play normal RBGs.
imagine waiting 15 mins just to drop and try again.
its not happening.
It also works at high MMR, where the pool of available players is small, because alts can easily make it to that MMR while having no CR at stake. This is the same way gatekeeping and queue-sniping in RBGs always worked. A tell-tale sign is to watch the chats of RBG streamers on twitch.
It “could” be done just to get conquest for alt armys. Losing on purpose is easy, free wins while your friends commit gameplay sabatoge on the enemy team is easy. People are allowed to take off their gear and run around accomplishing nothing. Have you seen healers or dps that at the end of the match may have auto attacked a bit, but thats it? Seen people at the inactive base for 10 min in EotS? Seen healers afk alone away from all objectives? It looks…suspiciously like gameplay sabotage and could have a purpose, win trading. I notice because I base sit as a hunter alot, in-between calling out enemy movements I watch what my team is doing.
How did you know?
I dunno broham I had some serious lag spikes going on earlier but that’s the extent of the troubles I’ve seen. Not saying it didn’t happen I’m just saying I’d believe you wrestle polar bears before I believe Que syncing blitz is a major problem.
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Sometimes you just know, y’know?
A normally toxic player’s alt suddenly talking super positively at the beginning of lobbies, grabbing flags and mysteriously dying 1v2 as their friend on the other team reaches cap?
“aw shucks, I messed up there, ggs though!” kinda chat
its rare, but it does happen. The attitude change seems to be an attempt to be too sweet to be reportable, gaming the fact that language is more heavily monitored than gameplay sabotage.
I dont have a way to prove queue syncing is happening, it is all educated guessing. Some programs track who youve played against or with, but you would have to stop after every match to write or type them all onto a spread sheet to track who has played on whos team to find a pattern of 6+ together nearly every time you see them, and queue sync communitys would be smart to have 50times that amount of players trying to queue sync. Aint nobady got time fir dat(trying to track that many people)
It is also educated guessing I keep to myself in game, I dont tell people when they do negative damage while in combat or go where makes no sence. I call out useful if heeded information only if I can help it.
syncing might happen at higher mmr but rn worst you’ll run into is multi-glad/heroes duo boosting. outside of that the other team just played better than yours. losses today for me have been lack of communication and just players not knowing what to do
I usually win so Im not sweating it, just seen some odd stuff.