Smurfs are a serious problem

They have always been a problem. They ruin the entire concept of climbing the ladder. This season they are even worse than before. The high queue times at high ELO are encouraging players to play on smurfs, and I for one am tired of getting matched with players who are clearly smurfs in ranked games. I only get to play about 10 games a week and climbing is hard enough without playing the lottery of who has the better smurf.

I realize that the general response to this is going to be, I'm bad and just making excuses for losing. But when you play against someone who has a 95% win rate, he's either scripting or smurfing. This is only going to get worse as queue times in high ELo continue to get worse and more and more players start climbing with smurfs.

It's too late to ban smurfs. Frankly that's not a good solution anyway. But this is just going to drive people away from the game.