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In our recent matchmaking update blog post, we mentioned that we were working on a mechanism to accelerate smurfs to their correct rank to minimize the side effects they cause, and that we’d be rolling it out slowly. We initially started with just measuring and tagging players, but without taking any actual action for a few days as we monitored the detection mechanisms.
As part of today’s update, we feel ready to activate the rank adjustment portion of the changes. The system searches for players that frequently perform significantly above their current skill bracket, and applies an MMR increase to those players until they've reached a skill bracket where they're no longer over performing. We're starting conservatively with the amount of adjustments we are making per game, and we’ll be tweaking these values as we gain confidence in its results.
If you run into cases where you think someone is clearly a smurf, please send me the Match ID and which hero it was and we’ll cross reference it with our system to verify if it is successfully monitoring and adjusting those players.
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