if you want to pause for lag thats fine, I don't think its a legitimate reason to pause and you ruin the game for 9 other people, but we're going to continue to have an abusive amount of pauses. It's gotten to the point where it happens at least every game, every week, i mean these aren't isolated incidents

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I've got two questions relating to the brackets we've been using for the NA Inhouses.
Firstly, the wins. If they're being "tracked" by experience of the player, do games completed on smurf accounts count? I've got ~200 wins on NA, and ~150 wins on EU. Does this mean I have 350 wins, or 200? Since the experience is being tracked by player not by account: Khazem going to NA to play in the 500+ games, smurfs of 1k+ wins not being allowed in >500 games.
Second, how does ELO factor in? Say I stop playing normal games (like I ever really started), and began playing ranked games. I win a bunch of ranked games, and gain a lot of ELO. In 200 wins (so I'd be at ~400 according to my NA record) I get to 1900 ELO (Khazem's ranked stats). Technically, I have less than 500 wins. But my skill level would probably be in the upper level bracket. What then?
I heard someone asking about it on Vent the other day, and I was really curious what the plans were / thoughts were about this.
Firstly, the wins. If they're being "tracked" by experience of the player, do games completed on smurf accounts count? I've got ~200 wins on NA, and ~150 wins on EU. Does this mean I have 350 wins, or 200? Since the experience is being tracked by player not by account: Khazem going to NA to play in the 500+ games, smurfs of 1k+ wins not being allowed in >500 games.
Second, how does ELO factor in? Say I stop playing normal games (like I ever really started), and began playing ranked games. I win a bunch of ranked games, and gain a lot of ELO. In 200 wins (so I'd be at ~400 according to my NA record) I get to 1900 ELO (Khazem's ranked stats). Technically, I have less than 500 wins. But my skill level would probably be in the upper level bracket. What then?
I heard someone asking about it on Vent the other day, and I was really curious what the plans were / thoughts were about this.
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If you were 1500 ELO + and had under 500 wins I feel like it would be reasonable to let you in (though I would expect you to have played like 50 matches ish because you could've just gotten lucky).
Games completed on smurf accounts count, it's about experience not the number of wins displayed on the account you're playing on.
Games completed on smurf accounts count, it's about experience not the number of wins displayed on the account you're playing on.

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I made one last week, and it's probably because only Veteran that made threads for NA this week didn't want to host 3 games. I didn't have time to host one this week. You could always ask a few Veterans if they'd mind hosting one if one's still not up by Wednesday, they just might not have noticed none were up.

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Yea I'm going to have issues hosting a lot this year because of my workload :/ Sucks that I was like the only one doing it before, when I stop no one except Night and Mowen pick it up :s
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It makes a difference for me because I would be either playing on 230+ ping or 180 ping without a pause. My ping's unstable at times and when it's low, I have 140, meaning I don't need to use a lag fixer. When it's high, like 230+ I need to use a lag fixer to fix it below 200.
Pretty sure you can just alt + tab for that :P