ritualist 6 being placed in 4 initiate lobbies in a row

[nebffodar]

I'm on a new account, as I'm using my other steam account less and figured that I wouldn't ruin too many games for new players since my old account was low ranked anyways. After playing a couple games I got past the rank I had on my old account (high ritualist/low emissary) and was getting decent lobbies. Suddenly as of a couple days ago all of my games have been in initiate 1 lobbies with very bad players, though my display rank has been fluctuating between ritualist and emissary.

MATCH IDS:
41013705
41152519
41156886
41253578

I'm not trying to ruin games for new players and I have no intention of smurfing, but it makes no sense to me that my new account with 16 games played ranked ritualist 6 is being placed in initiate 1 lobbies, while my account with 700 hours ranked arcanist 4 is consistently being put in oracle/archon lobbies.

At first I assumed this had something to do with hero mmr, but on the new account all of my games have been on one hero, and the first 12 games were in games ranging from alchemist to emissary, so why am I suddenly put into 4 initiate lobbies in a row?

This seems to be the opposite of a problem other players are having; instead of my rank being hard locked my games are.
I have had 'competitive matchmaking' enabled for all matches on this account.

 

[nebffodar]

 

[nothingplease]

So you are on Valves forum admitting to "oops smurfing" that is bannable? Good thing no one at Valve ever looks at the forums

 

[nebffodar]

So you are on Valves forum admitting to "oops smurfing" that is bannable? Good thing no one at Valve ever looks at the forums

did you read what i wrote? this account is literally a higher rank than my "main", its just new. Also, this is a forum about bugs and issues, and this definitely is one... not sure why me playing on a second account is relevant

 

[nothingplease]

did you read what i wrote? this account is literally a higher rank than my "main", its just new. Also, this is a forum about bugs and issues, and this definitely is one... not sure why me playing on a second account is relevant

Because you are higher ranked and are playing in initiate 1 lobbies? It's bugged and you are clearly demolishing so smurfing. But you do you and hope you don't get VAC banned since that is both your accs gone. Good luck.

 

[TheBearded]

Because you are higher ranked and are playing in initiate 1 lobbies? It's bugged and you are clearly demolishing so smurfing. But you do you and hope you don't get VAC banned since that is both your accs gone. Good luck.

Love how you accuse the player of smurfing when he's literally posting this to have it fixed because he dislikes it.

Stop trying to shame a whistleblower for blowing a whistle. You're literally complaining about the issue he's trying to raise awareness about, genius.

 

[TheBearded]

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By the way; how do you see the individual ranks? Is it a mod?

 

[nebffodar]

By the way; how do you see the individual ranks? Is it a mod?

A site called Statlocker. Im not sure how accurate some of their data is due to unprocessed matches but its useful and fun to look at.