Quinn allegedly being targeted by teammates or the system

Valve’s latest Dota 2 update brought a lot of good news for the community. A total of 90.000 smurf accounts got banned and the new rules made it harder for people to be toxic in pubs without suffering severe consequences.

But at the highest competitive level, where everyone knows everyone else and people compete against the same opponents even two times per day, Valve’s new system might not be working as intended.

One of the characteristics of the new reporting and matchmaking system is that it allows players to report others in many ways and not just three times. People can spam their reports, which increases the risk of abuse. This is what Quinn “Quinn” Callahan has suggested on his live stream these days.

Just played 15 games on stream not saying a single word and trying my hardest till the end and i lost 800 behaviour score. The system is incredibly broken for the top .01% and needs to be fixed

— Quinn Callahan (@ccncdota2) September 5, 2023

Quinn’s story

Quinn is known to be a bit toxic in pubs, both in chat as well as in the way he behaves sometimes. But he made a huge effort to be positive after the new update. He didn’t flame people, he didn’t do anything to end a game sooner by destroying his items or anything like that.

In fact, he won most of his games and was a good teammate. But despite his best efforts, his behavior score is going down. Right now, it’s below 6000, which means that he started to lose some of his in-game communication options.

Below 3000, players also lose their ability to play ranked. He probably wouldn’t mind not being able to talk as much as he wants or to write in chat, but he would certainly be upset to not be able to play ranked ahead of The International 12, when his team, Gaimin Gladiators is regarded as one of the favorites.

When we combine the inability to play ranked games below a certain behavior score with Valve’s new rules against smurf accounts, the stakes are much higher for everyone involved. Pro players, in particular, need to be extra careful and try their best to be positive examples for the rest of the community.

Quinn stated that if his account goes below 3000, he will start buying smurf accounts. He threatened to do this because he felt like either the system was broken or his teammates were targeting him in pubs.

To be fair, some pro players, like Janne “Gorgc” Stefanovski even joked about the situation and said that he should be an experiment for everyone else, just to see what happens when the behavior score goes below 3000.

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