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Is it bannable to try to get a 5-man queue pop in Solo/Duo?

TiltoverEnforcer·6/17/2019, 6:56:53 PM·2 votes·4,487 views

I have a bunch of friends all around roughly the same rank (Diamond 3), and say we were to all queue up in different positions, hoping to get all 5 on the same team, by looking at the estimated queue times (it's not perfect, but it's a decent indicator if we'll be in the same game or not). There are few enough people in Diamond that we occasionally get 3 or 4-man queues to work, and as I'm writing this 4 of my friends are in a ranked game together. Is this an offense, and is this punishable? We're not really breaking any rules (that we're aware of), we're simply using all the tools that are provided to us to get a competitive edge, which anyone is capable of doing. Thanks!

(The funny part is that they're using the same club tag, so the enemy team sees they're a premade)

5 Comments

Zezilian6/17/2019, 6:59:32 PM1 votes

Have fun trying. I highly doubt it will work. But not, it's not against the rules if you can make it.

The Kombinator6/28/2019, 8:04:49 AM1 votes

Well if you got third party communication such as teamspeak, then entirely possible. You have more, than enough time during ready check. The only risk is, that you go against each other, but even that can be abused for wintrade.

The solution would be a synchronized invite system such as in Town of Salem. Instead of inviting when possible they would create a timer, and invite players in that frequency. Such as every 2 minutes. That way everyone in the game would get the ready check at the same time, and you couldn't possibly know whether you are ready with your teammates, or not.