On April 30 2015 08:03 Jormundr wrote:
Apparently you haven't heard. We're in the middle of banwave 2 of 4. Most people are 2-3 ranks higher already.

What do you mean 2 of 4?

Roggay

Switzerland6320 Posts

May 08 2015 23:58 GMT

#122

Got global elite thanks to the recent banwaves :D

Altho I have to say, the level of play at global elite is dogshit. We could troll the whole game doing random shit like rushing b every round on dust 2 and still destroying the other team. I remember LEM being much harder than global now before the banwave.
I guess its time to look at alternatives, but im reluctant to pay for ESEA and I dont like faceit. I've tried CEVO some time ago, but I don't know if I like the lack of automatic matchmaking.

Nimix

France1809 Posts

May 09 2015 00:15 GMT

#123

Yeah man I played with a SMFC dude that literally looked like a gold player the other day :D ESEA is pretty good, but I think the faceit ladder system makes it interesting, although I haven't tried the paid matchmaking. Grats on global, gotta grind to reach it too now that it's holidays time!

iXphobos

Germany1464 Posts

May 09 2015 14:36 GMT

#124

Can someone explain to me why i got demoted without playing MM?

NihiLStarcraft

Denmark1413 Posts

May 09 2015 14:50 GMT

#125

It can happen when you've had hackers on your teams in the past that got VAC banned. Results of those games are reverted. Sucks assuming you didn't know or queue with them

iXphobos

Germany1464 Posts

May 09 2015 15:28 GMT

#126

On May 09 2015 23:50 NihiLStarcraft wrote:
It can happen when you've had hackers on your teams in the past that got VAC banned. Results of those games are reverted. Sucks assuming you didn't know or queue with them

Yeah, already checked that, but nothing there ...

NihiLStarcraft

Denmark1413 Posts

May 09 2015 15:48 GMT

#127

You only checked your last 8 games I assume, since that's all that you can access within CSGO? There have been several major VAC ban waves in the last week or two, a lot of accounts have been banned that were hacking for a very long time.

Afaik there is no other way you could derank without playing.

Nimix

France1809 Posts

May 09 2015 16:19 GMT

#128

There's a neat chrome extension that allows you to check VAC bans on the friends steam page, and works on all the tabs.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ban-checker-for-steam/canbadmphamemnmdfngmcabnjmjgaiki
It stopped working for a moment but seems to have been updated and to work again. You can install that, check your friendlist and your "recently played with" tab for bans.

TurboDreams

United States427 Posts

May 10 2015 01:23 GMT

#129

I just ranked up to LE, I still don't feel like im playing any better, but its progress!

HolyArrow

United States7116 Posts

May 10 2015 02:57 GMT

#130

On May 10 2015 10:23 TurboDreams wrote:
I just ranked up to LE, I still don't feel like im playing any better, but its progress!

Same. Was MGE for a long time, and achieved LE last night but it feels bittersweet because the level of play doesn't really seem too much higher, just that everyone got shifted on the bell curve when a bunch of spots opened up due to the ban waves. Still feel like I'm pretty bad and that my opponents are for the most part not particularly strong either.

iXphobos

Germany1464 Posts

May 12 2015 11:06 GMT

#131

So i figured that telephones don't exist in russia.
Apperantly you have to talk to your friends and family through CS ingame voice while ruining the game for everybody.

Kipsate

Netherlands45349 Posts

May 12 2015 11:56 GMT

#132

I think I spend like 2 weeks going from Silver 3 to GN1, spend 2 weeks in GN 2 but finally reached GN 3 yesterday!.

I have adopted a pseudo russian/CIS voice to communicate with my eastern friends, resorting to broken english which they can understand

it works oke-ish.

Striker.superfreunde

Germany1120 Posts

May 12 2015 13:53 GMT

#133

works oke-ish .. hehe.
Had a game last night too with 4 eastern friends. We ALL tried really hard to communicate with each other.. but oh boy..

Still was a fun match thou.

Over the last three weeks i`ve played like 10 to 12 games and got promoted twice without any kind of effort. I even made a team kill which caused us a lost round but still got promoted.

It was a good night overall. Got an ace, made 3 and 4k`s with famas - burst mode! (hrhr) - and all that vs. sem/gn1 guys.

I felt like 18 all over again

Headshot

United States1656 Posts

May 12 2015 16:54 GMT

#134

Got to double AK last bought. Just one more to go for my badge. :D. I was thinking about trying out ESEA for month, but do you guys think that MGE is too low?

amazingxkcd

GRAND OLD AMERICA16375 Posts

May 12 2015 17:14 GMT

#135

On May 13 2015 01:54 Headshot wrote:
Got to double AK last bought. Just one more to go for my badge. :D. I was thinking about trying out ESEA for month, but do you guys think that MGE is too low?

its a bit on the low side but with ESEA getting bigger and the average skill level in pugs getting lower, I don't see why not try it out.

you can buddy me or anyone that has ESEA on here and we'll pug it out :D

Headshot

United States1656 Posts

May 12 2015 17:54 GMT

#136

On May 13 2015 02:14 amazingxkcd wrote:

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I appreciate it man will do.

Edit
Just got ESEA today. My account name is SonicAlarm. Like I said, I'm only MGE, but I'd love to meet and play with some of you TLers as I improve.