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Coramoor
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
Canada455 Posts
February 21 2011 21:13 GMT
#21
That doesn't happen too often in 2v2, for example, i'm a masters league player who plays mostly 2v2 with friends that are silver/bronze, so we're high bronze now as my friend keeps improving, but when we play two silver league players we demolish because the skill level between me and opposing players is generally quite great and my teammate is quite decent in the context of the game,
DeckOneBell
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
United States526 Posts
February 21 2011 21:17 GMT
#22
On February 22 2011 05:43 Slunk wrote:
This is bullshit. Nobody loses on purpose to fall down from diamond to bronze. You are just facing low level player that are better than you. It would take like 50 losses to get from diamond to bronze and only 20 to get back up, this doesnt make any sense.


I've met a bronze player while I was in diamond, probably when his MMR was on the upswing.

It happens.

Not too hard to disconnect every other game, win one, quit right away, win one, quit right away...

Repeat ad nauseum.

It makes sense and it happens.
butchji
Profile Joined September 2009
Germany1531 Posts
February 21 2011 21:42 GMT
#23
Why would someone do that?
Pyrrhuloxia
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States6700 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-21 21:49:49
February 21 2011 21:48 GMT
#24
It might not be sandbagging - they changed the matchmaking in 1.2.2 (very recently) and all sorts of weirdness is occurring with very unbalanced matches happening more frequently.

EDIT: Well obviously some people sandbag and OP has found evidence of this, but just because you are in Silver and going against a team with a platinum member does not mean a player is doing anything weird.
intrigue
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Washington, D.C9934 Posts
February 21 2011 22:09 GMT
#25
pretty sure your issue is more with people being dicks, rather than mysterious malicious users on bnet2 abusing the matchmaking system just to fuck with you. don't feel gipped because you are playing a team with high 1v1-rank players, because you are matched by team rating.
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Espelz
Profile Joined October 2010
Germany819 Posts
February 21 2011 22:12 GMT
#26
Especially in 2vs2 i don´t think anybody really actively leaves games to demote himself. Like someone already said, most people who play rather "good" or competetive have friends/relatives who are rather bad, but they play with them for fun anyway (I play with my girlfriends brother occasionally, and we recently got promoted to silver leage, with me beeing at about 2,7K diamond in 1on1. It just was that we lost 4 /5 placement matches due to rushes / proxies with him doing "not so much"...

But i have to agree : in 1on1 its just stupid, demoralizing for the players who don´t stand a chance, and to me it would be extremly boring to try to play bronze all the time for a different pic on the screen.
"Its not over till Fantasy gg´s" - Sayle
Eeryck
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States184 Posts
February 21 2011 22:35 GMT
#27
On February 22 2011 07:09 intrigue wrote:
pretty sure your issue is more with people being dicks, rather than mysterious malicious users on bnet2 abusing the matchmaking system just to fuck with you. don't feel gipped because you are playing a team with high 1v1-rank players, because you are matched by team rating.


This is somewhat correct. Although I find those that are being dicks much easier to tolerate if I see a Victory screen at the end.

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I was not saying that anyone in 2v2 was sandbagging. I guess I really can't understand how someone Platinum 1v1 teamed with someone Diamond 1v1 could make a main race team and place in Silver 2v2 then have a 50/50 win ratio with that team.

Perhaps if it were off-race I could understand.

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With the high level and low level friends, these teams tend not to be dicks. In fact, it is usually clear that one player is much worse and even when we get ROFL stomped by the better player, the replay and profile check after typically show this. Honestly these games tend to be fun because we do moderately well enough that if we get lucky and hit the better player with the combined attack we stand a chance in the game.

Of course when we are unlucky and kill or nearly kill the lower ranked player, it is usually death by macro. =)

-----------------

Anyway thanks for all the replys and reading my rant. I am done working for the day so thanks for helping me pass the time. =)
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Catch]22
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Sweden2683 Posts
February 21 2011 22:51 GMT
#28
Y U HAET?

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selboN
Profile Blog Joined January 2008
United States2523 Posts
February 21 2011 22:54 GMT
#29
On February 22 2011 05:43 Slunk wrote:
This is bullshit. Nobody loses on purpose to fall down from diamond to bronze. You are just facing low level player that are better than you. It would take like 50 losses to get from diamond to bronze and only 20 to get back up, this doesnt make any sense.

Lol yeah they do, I have a player on my CSL team who has 2 accounts. One is primarily for "fun" which he got demoted from Diamond to Bronze.
"That's what happens when you're using a mouse made out of glass!" -Tasteless (Referring to ZergBong)
Eeryck
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States184 Posts
February 21 2011 23:09 GMT
#30
On February 22 2011 07:51 Catch]22 wrote:
Y U HAET?

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Haters gonna hate!

I thought about that when I made the topic. I never was fond of the smurfs. I never did like how the replaced 60% of the verbs with "smurf".
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Sm3agol
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
United States2055 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-21 23:21:07
February 21 2011 23:20 GMT
#31
One thing in favor of "sandbagging". I often screw around in team games, and going mass ghost for the lulz just isn't fun at higher levels of play, nor do you win very often. Whereas doing that kind of stuff is hilarious in lower levels. SO I often go on long losing streaks in 4 v 4 by just doing retarded stuff so that when i want to try out some ridiculous strategy I thought of, it's not against some masters level try-hards.

1 v 1, I can understand your beef....but team games.....they're for the lulz.

When I try i can beast up 4 v 4 games due to most of the players being terrid, but why try in team games?
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