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We try to model our skill estimation to the results we get, not towards a particular shape of a distribution we have in mind before starting. So aiming for a bottom-heavy distribution wouldn't necessarily be representative of the data we see in game.

Sorry to hear it - support ticket is going to be your best bet. Hope it gets resolved for you!

While I'd disagree that provisional games are less impactful than post-placement games, you do make a good point that since you can't skip divisions during provisionals, you may get bigger single game jumps, depending on where and when those wins happen.

Some atypical things do happen when you go 9/1 or 10/0 in provisionals, though - I think this is more a product of you having an excellent win streak and the system cautiously catching you up than anything else.

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We'd love to work on a big title at some point, but for now we need to build our muscles publishing some smaller games before we take on something like that.

Event accounts are seeded at a higher than usual MMR, but they do a lot less to disrupt the MMR balance because:

• They're only active for a smaller period of time
• They're seeded much closer to a reasonable approximation of their skill, since we know the pro player's performance already
• The number of pro players coming in is fairly small.

These accounts probably cause a slight overall deflation (as we don't seed them as high as some of these players are on their home server, so they tend to gain MMR), but it's considerably less than if we let those players enter the system via smurf accounts without higher seeding.

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It's not a bad idea, but draft games aren't played with the same competitive intent as ranked games, so we can't guarantee that how you do in those 10 games is representative of how you'd do in Ranked. I wouldn't trust Normal data as the only way of seeding someone, but it could be part of the solution along with other info.

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We're keeping to single player experiences right now, but we're huge fans of co-op games and they're equally great at immersing you in the world, so we'd love to do one in the future and it's in the realm of possibility. /u/Chillingo has got it right - completable is a way to say non-pvp/MMO experiences.

It's such a relief to finally be able to talk (albeit limited) about what you're working on. Couldn't be more proud for the partners we're working with too.

I'm so hyped for the TGA's this year. :D Can't wait!

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Hey there, I'm the game designer working on this space right now, and this explanation is pretty accurate! There's a couple other issues with entering people in away from the middle:

- If your median starts at value A, and you start to add new players in at value B, where B

- Not every new player is below average. Some are well above average, some are well below, but we're still operating with limited information in all those cases. Starting people too low means that above average new players create disruptions in the system for a longer period of time (because we're matching them and updating MMRs based on their current position, which is very different from the "true" position where they will settle).

This isn't to say we're happy with the new player experience to ranked right now - the way we do things now works out over time, but doesn't feel good for everyone. Our goal is to hopefully keep the individual matches feeling fair for both the new player ...

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