GAME ONE
its here boys and grills !!!
game one which happened to be pretty fun and talkative and yes as you expect... easy.
im going to basically place down a video here and explain what im doing and some explanations about MMR and the like also so personal observations and some photos and run you guys through the eventual climb.
its a bit long but it hopefully clears up some MMR confusion and includes some of my backstory in MMR hell
Now before we begin i still haven't finished my first ten 10 games yet so this one is on the VERY first game played on the new account.
so with out futher ado here what the teams looked like!
INB4 FILTHY SF PICKER... yes i know but hey love me some last hits and deniesas you can see the last guy didnt pick till right after the draft so all g. but i feel just looking at the drafts we were a bit ahead. early game was ok i won my lane pretty quickly with my last hitting. and i zoned out the Ques-Wex invoker pretty easily. then nek minute...
those guys bottom bought like 4 sentries at the start and a dust... no wonder they got first blood !!!bottom lane just went crazy from there on and top was doing even better. i can safely say we won all the lanes i was farming mid and loving it. the invoker couldnt come to lane for fear of dying and he left lane after he realized he wouldnt get any last hits with me there. Then all hell broke loose. kills everywhere, we got 3 kills top and another 2 bottom and then another one top... mean while .... i farmed mid. i knew there wasnt any reason for me to leave and no one was ganking me so EASY LANE BOYZ GG WP... heres what it looked like at 12 mins.
dem denies though... oh look highest level by 2i would have had a lot more last hits but at the very start i realized i didnt make my hotkeys so i missed about 2 creep waves worth of last hits over the ten minutes. :( my denies were on point though...game went pretty smoothly from there and then they decided to group and push mid .... na-huh hunny i got this little invis rune just specially for you...here comes the pain...
ez double ez gamegame was going like a dream before hand now it was just sailing smoothly. void was farming i was farming and clock and lich were roaming getting kills. we did rosh earlish and then pushed down the rest of the tier 1's and a couple tier 2's.... then a ****ing centuar happened....
centaurs bear a grudge so it seems!my requiem got 2 but it also hit the cent camp then when riki jumped me with bh i euls riki and went to run away but they blocked the camp and well... my first death on the new account boyz ... :( sad times. in the end it turned out ok we team wiped them from it and only lost me and clockwerk. from it we took the last tier 2 and game was pretty much over.
paybacks a *****pushing tier 3 top for the game i managed to catch a bounty hunter out of position and blew him up like the fourth of july!! we then pushed and took rax took mid and finished the game!
team work was what won us it!Big first game boys and the things are looking UP! i also have some news along the lines of the elo climb.... so remember me saying it takes usually at least 20 games for the algorithm to start putting you in your skill level ? well..... this time its going to be a lot quicker. currently have played 5 games and i am in high skill already ... sooo im expecting very high by game 20 at least. so far so good people !!!
stay tuned for game 10!
yea you will most likely be getting people from another timezone where it would be reasonable to be on. like 5pm my time is 5am england time kind of thing. if i was to Que on UK servers at 5pm i would most likely get some weird people :P
Yeah, but at 7pm or a bit later on UK servers you would get meee :D
Yeah. But not only kids, think adults (or more or less older people) that work and that can only play after work and stuff like preparing dinner etc., whereas regular kids are now in vacations all around Europe so they can play at any given time. I started noticing this since my work schedule is flexible and I would sometimes want to play in the morning before work, but I recently stopped doing it unless I have people to form a party, since chances are it's gonna go bad :)
yea you will most likely be getting people from another timezone where it would be reasonable to be on. like 5pm my time is 5am england time kind of thing. if i was to Que on UK servers at 5pm i would most likely get some weird people :P
Interesting. I agree with you that, if it works that way, it can be rewarding. But I would still find other studies more interesting, such as how the hours at which we chose to play influence the players we are matched up with :D
For instance, I've been seeing a pattern lately:
- Playing during the week at night in Greenwhich: Nice leveled and educated people, %50 chance of winning or higher.
- Playing in the early morning: No teamplay at all and terrible decision making, if you solo que (if you go in a party, this changes). 20% chance of winning.
- Playing at dawn: Russians. Zero skill, zero teamplay. 5% chance of winning :P
that is purely geographical. there are many examples of server IP tracking for this.
Timezones have to be taken into account but in europe i guess your looking at multiple time zones and US as well another factor is the many cultural differences.
kids in school at certain times in multiple timezones means you at say 6pm your getting kids from one timezone then at 8 from another. the difference in types of players your matched with at different times is purely geographical.
For instance, I've been seeing a pattern lately:
- Playing during the week at night in Greenwhich: Nice leveled and educated people, %50 chance of winning or higher.
- Playing in the early morning: No teamplay at all and terrible decision making, if you solo que (if you go in a party, this changes). 20% chance of winning.
- Playing at dawn: Russians. Zero skill, zero teamplay. 5% chance of winning :P
basically im trying to show that the MMR allocation system works and that the overall system in place to assess skill is reasonably accurate at the same time im trying to show the pitfalls that people fall into and some ways to increase your skill level and playing level.
for example i picked "im a beginner" yet within 2 games ... i have been placed within high skill. so im not playing with beginners... thats what im trying to explain... this was normal skill and these guys played like high 2k players. the next game was normal and then the one after that was high skill.
AND i lost the second game!
so when you say "of course you will win your playing against noobs" im telling you that the algorithm doesnt let that happen...
if you watch the video it explains that you have calibration matches at the start of your new account and they assess everything and allocate you to your skill level within 20 or so games.
Im happy because it was a fun game and i had talkative team mates which i was happy about for my first game, i mean who wants to deal with ragers and flamers in their first game! :P
im trying to show that "Smurfing" is not in fact in anyway "Smurfing" if you understand that? people dont start a smurf and then get placed with noobs and win games until calibration... the algorithm doesnt let that happen. it works incredibly quick and at most you will be placed with lower skill people for 5 games. for me it was TWO!
i think some reflection is reasonable though and maybe i should take this into a more "instructional" pathway. i shall in the future make these more about what "not" to do in games and how to improve in dota while at the same time continuing on my adventure :)
gl hf
ChiChi you think that the guys im facing are noobs?
this is the guy i faced mid
http://www.dotabuff.com/players/279272796
seems noob right?
oh and this is another guy ive played against in mid?
http://www.dotabuff.com/players/278975990
noob?
heres a game where i played support and this is the enemy carry
http://www.dotabuff.com/players/86870975