EPTOn December 01 2009 02:52 KwarK wrote:
You're not getting smurfed. You're just bad and delusional and lying to yourself to make your losses alright. You're like the people who go "i lost to a 300apm terran, I think it's NaDa, check hotkeys pls" at C- guys with a negative record. Numerically there simply aren't enough B ranks to infest the 3/4 of games that Ds claim they're in. Only the top 10% of players make B- or better and they generally spend their time in Ladder A-B. A minority of that 10% may be smurfing lower ranks but even then they can't spend that much time there before they move out of it again.
It just doesn't add up. Statistically the chances of playing a smurf are pretty low, like 1/20 or so. That everybody believes they play 4 or 5 smurfs in a row on a nightly basis is mass delusion.
You're not getting smurfed. You're just bad and delusional and lying to yourself to make your losses alright. You're like the people who go "i lost to a 300apm terran, I think it's NaDa, check hotkeys pls" at C- guys with a negative record. Numerically there simply aren't enough B ranks to infest the 3/4 of games that Ds claim they're in. Only the top 10% of players make B- or better and they generally spend their time in Ladder A-B. A minority of that 10% may be smurfing lower ranks but even then they can't spend that much time there before they move out of it again.
It just doesn't add up. Statistically the chances of playing a smurf are pretty low, like 1/20 or so. That everybody believes they play 4 or 5 smurfs in a row on a nightly basis is mass delusion.
The funny thing is that most of the games I play are against D/D+ people with around my record. But I run into people who are Smurfs... I'm pretty sure that a C- player with a 12-3 record is a smurf especially considering the games are not cheeses. Every game is usually a long game 15 min+.
I don't believe I'm playing smurfs on I nightly basis, in fact I know I'm not. But if you want go look at my iccup and look at the people I play before 5-6 game losing streaks, they usually are 80% or so in win rate and I do run into some of them in a row.
