I must have played 3,000 Plus games in the last 3.months that’s roughly 12,000 opponents plus the thousands who join games and leave before they start. In all that time I have seen one grand master and maybe 100 masters
Where are they. When’d do they play
Do they have to play to stay grand masters or once they gain the status can they sit back
I personally have five accounts that have active grandmaster status. I rarely play with any of them because it is very difficult to find high ranked opponents to play against. Right now I mainly play with two other accounts that do not yet have grandmaster rank (I use one of these accounts for progressive and the other for fixed). The actual ranking of my accounts remains constant unless I play but my position relative to others has steadily fallen over time as more and more accounts reach the top ranks. Now to be clear many grandmaster accounts (especially those at the top of the leaderboard) are those of cheaters who play with multiple accounts in the same game. I wish more were done to detect cheating because my position would be greatly improved by the removal of the cheaters’ accounts. Also it’s lame that 1v1 players are ranked ahead of people like me who play five human opponents. Nearly all grandmasters, cheaters or otherwise, host their own game and you are highly unlikely to have them join a game that you or anyone who isn’t a grandmaster is hosting.
Richard Borthwick