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Originally Posted by Wayward Vagabond
You guys can already IP check accounts and have linked accounts in the past so...
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That's not quite the same though. Think about it for a moment: if a user has two accounts and is aware of this ranking degradation concept, they can show an older account they have - we'll arbitrarily say that this account is account A, and D5 based off of their level ranks, but gets dropped a division based off of not playing for a while... or so we thought. So, with this degrade, they're showing D4.
Again, these values are arbitrary.
They enter the tournament under a secondary account, account B, in hopes of not being detected/linked up at all with that previous account, because it shows better scores, and they get placed in D3. An IP check, along with other methods of verification, confirms that they are the same as account A, and they get placed back in D4, despite showing D5 stats due to having "degraded" level ranks.
...whoops, they've been playing offline engines and other offsite content to keep their skills sharp and are simply waiting until the tournament progresses to showcase the skill that never lost -- i.e. they're a D5 player, sitting in D4, and are playing other content continuously, only recording relevant scores that would otherwise keep them in a D4 status.
Anything even remotely close to this promotes sandbagging and will be absolute hell to accommodate for. It's shitty to have to accommodate for past skill, I get that - but, you run the risk of ruining the enjoyment of the tournament for a much larger group by inserting someone who later turns out to be a massive sandbagger. We all remember what happened when NeoMasterPie got put in D1 during the 7th Official Tournament - and yes, it's not exactly sandbagging in that case as much as it was sheer stupidity on the part of the tournament host, but... it's the same concept of skill not being effectively measured.