do you regret removing smurf queue now the sentiment is going back to complaining about smurfs in every game.
Grouping 9-10 smurfs and the occasional late player to ranked kept the average game integrity higher compared to spreading those 10 smurfs out into other games
No, because the way it was implemented was making the experience pretty unreasonable for any of those late returners. There are other tactics we should use to improve game integrity that don't have those other painful effects.
Hey Auberaun! Thanks for chiming in! So am I correct to infer from your statement that there was no separate and distinct "smurf queue", and that what people refer to as "smurf queue" is actually just the experience of having a disjointed MMR/rank, whether you're actually "smurfing" or not?
Yes that's correct. An oversimplified way of how matchmaking worked was to find players within X MMR and Y LP difference of each other. Those start out pretty tight, but if no full group can be formed, expand X and Y by some amount every Z seconds.
So it's just a consequence of that that you have the groups of people whose MMR and LP were close together (the bulk engaged players who'd been participating since the season began) and those who aren't (the everyone-else group already identified). If for some reason anyone in those groups had to wait an excessively long time to the extent that their search envelopes would overlap, they could still be put together, that was just pretty unlikely given the tuning.
ok yamato you win the cringe off...
Ender has been going throught Harry Styles-esque attention seeking.. 1) create drama, 2) wear ugly things, 3) try to be relatabla and goofy, 4) doing stupid things. It's so exhausting watching a grown man trying so hard to be teenage
what drama? i love good drama
Yamato was really good.
real
That turned more and more british the longer it went
i lost the plot halfway through
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aIa1hZ8LuE
Yes, smurf queue was a thing, but it has been removed. The video kind of summarizes the history of it's implementation and removal
https://www.leagueoflegends.com/en-gb/news/game-updates/patch-13-1-notes/ In the part where they say "Visible rank is no longer used as matchmaking criteria, only MMR (Note: this was implemented in patch 12.23)", that's them removing the checking of how disjointed your MMR and visual rank were.
For some more context, grouping smurfs was a secondary benefit, the primary goal of using visible rank in matchmaking was to improve sentiment around fairness of matches for most players, stuff like "why is this Silver in my Gold game". Problem was the population who was in that bucket of disjointed MMR and visual rank: smurfs, decayed Diamond+ players, and people starting their season climb later than everyone else (returning players, new players). It was a pretty poor experience for that segment and most of those groups besides the smurfs are just going to go play a game or mode that isn't going to do that to them.
Guldborg robbed.
Mike was an embarrassment
gguys can we start the game? I have to go to work tomorrow
no
Sjokz this week feels like a fan that somehow infiltrated the broadcast and is having the time of her life.
i love it
I hope Ender gets to meet Zach Galifianakis one day he really seems to model all his acting off him lol
same
/u/Auberaun hopefully this guy gets permabanned banned as well since he's exploiting. Is this going to be fixed along with the brazilian solo q issues?
Yes
is the mic ok ender
its fine. gb isnt tho
Is this what ender offers? Even the desk and casters are cringing
thats the idea
idk if you guys knew about this bug, but during the day, whenever I play League, the ping would go to 80ms, then I would close the loading screen (after pick and bans) and the ping would go back to 29ms, but its only during the day, when I play 8pm onwards the ping would stay at 80ms. Basically, when the game loads (after pick and bans) just close the game and reconnect and the ping should be fixed.
This is caused by your ISP treating the route to HK over two paths out of the PH as equal cost when they have very different paths and latencies in reality. What you’re doing here is the right way to go about getting around it.
Will Astralis win worlds?
u/endercasts I just wanted to say that I am super happy seeing you in the LEC again and I love your content. Your efforts are being appreciated and I hope you will never stop
i wont stop until they literally drag me off the stage <3
You're washed. He was in your head from the start
BS - That Scottish caster absolutely ruined my mojo. I was cursed. It wasn't my fault. Besides who even are you bruv?
Why was Quickshot talking about masturbating on a Riot stream
I said they were master baiters, not sure what you're talking about. :>
It’s pretty popular in lck. You can tell dagda and quickshot have been paying 0 attention to lck.
You're 100% right :D I was on vacation until yesterday :P Break week and personal life > knowing EVERY item in EVERY league.
Thanks for the update and since I'm back today, diving proper into prep / study going forward.
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