@nickeverdox @user958723 @Trick2g @drewlevin @RealAlicopter

On that VALORANT ban, the issue we called out then was that the alts weren’t owned and hand-leveled. That was the detection. This detection is the party MMR being held down so a lower account can climb. There is many forms of rank manipulation we address and will continue to address. riotgames.com/en/community-p…

There's a lot of mix-up about who this was even about, so here's some visual representations. Let me be very clear @RealAlicopter is not why the party got penalized. What the system flagged is the party MMR (blue) being held down because they were alternating between multiple different accounts to lower the party MMR, while the highest player in that lobby (red) stayed much higher, and a lower-skilled account in that party jumping a huge amount of LP in a short window. That's hitchhiking / queue-boosting: you change what the matchmaker sees so someone can climb faster than that account would on its own. Red = highest MMR in the party. Blue = party MMR. The filled gap is the lobby getting easier than the stack's real skill. Playing with friends on ranks you're eligible to queue on is allowed. Dragging the party rating down, so a much lower account can ride up is the part that isn't.

tung tun sahoor was not UD indeed....

Bro completely crashed out and started doxxing and clearing the discord chat because their customers were complaining too much 😭

"Claude make me 10k in 1 month make no mistakes"

Should I be worried here?

It's 2 am and I am still at manual ban HQ