Today, we permanently banned 90,000 smurf accounts that have been active over the last few months. Smurf accounts are alternate accounts used by players to avoid playing at the correct MMR, to abandon games, to cheat, to grief, or to otherwise be toxic without consequence. Additionally, we have traced every single one of these smurf accounts back to its main account.

From the Dota 2 website:

Today, we permanently banned 90,000 smurf accounts that have been active over the last few months. Smurf accounts are alternate accounts used by players to avoid playing at the correct MMR, to abandon games, to cheat, to grief, or to otherwise be toxic without consequence.

Additionally, we have traced every single one of these smurf accounts back to its main account. Going forward, a main account found associated with a smurf account could result in a wide range of punishments, from temporary adjustments to behavior scores to permanent account bans.

  • xep
    4•1 year ago

    I have found it impossible to climb above Iron 2 because of smurfs, bots and powerlevellers inting their accounts deliberately so that they can resell them.

    If this is the case, then how does this happen?

    they’re lucrative for YouTube content creators because they use them to do ‘Iron to Grandmaster’ series.

    • @matterEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      2 is higher than 3 or 4.

      Presumably OP is about as skilled as, or a little more than, account farmers (who are bound to be pretty good to make any money…) and less skilled than professional YouTubers.