How the Smurfs accounts ruined League of Legends (to be published 2022)

Matchmaking is hopelessly broken due to the amount of Smurfs in game. Riot knows of this but seems to be unable to properly address this huge problem. It is impossible to create evenly skilled games, that people have a chance at victory, when you have gold and above playing with Smurf accounts. I have been playing this game for over 8 years and match making seems to be getting constantly worse with each season I play. Since I am an old man (+50 years old) I know I have no chance at advancing to anything higher then silver or gold.

I would still like to play and what feeds that urge is a game in which evenly matched players duke it out and at the games end I didn't care about the Victory or Loss. I just had fun playing the game.

With the amount of smurf accounts in the game now, that makes it impossible. You either stupidly easily win the game or hopeless lose the game. Both are boring.

I want a game that is challenging but I challenge that can be overcome

If everyone stopped Smurfing then the game's match making process would be able to better manage setting up evenly skilled games. Until this happens, either by Riots intervention or by all of us, I predict the game spiraling down into oblivion. Its a simple as that.

Smurf accounts are destroying the game. The people at Riot who haven't accepted this are fooling themselves. But what do I know?

I simply started out in the early 80's as president of the computer club, programming games after school on my Radio Shack TRS-80 and Wang 2200. I've only been playing computer games since my father bought me an Atari 400 computer and I mastered Star Raiders(c)1979. I'm only AlphaBot on the longest continuously played game on the net "Subspace/Continuum" (Nic created Dec 1999) .

Honor: Yourself, by only seeking challenging competition, Your opponent, to qualify your skill in the defeat, The Game, by allowing your only reward to be participation in a Great Battle.

Peace be with you.