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Posted: **05 December 2025, 22:17**

XCrookX wrote: ↑05 December 2025, 12:57 There are some smurfs. But most of the time there are "normal players" around. Use the filters and you will find (most of the time) players that are on your level of gameplay. Furthermore you should improve your playstyle and your game instead of watching if the other player is a smurf or not. I lost 80 out of my first 100 arena games and it was pretty frustrating at times.

Now i have played some more games and it is getting better with the time. Of course really good players stomp me but that is part of the game. Sometimes i am able to win against 400 to 600 elo players and i am proud about my development.

I am thankful that BGA provides the opportunity for all of us to play this game online and have fun together

Best wishes

as I said I found only three but they were ones for sure but thats a very small percentage! agree that Im grateful we can play on bga !

Posted: **06 January 2026, 20:57**

I hadn’t encountered any smurfs for over a year but have run into three this week - why do people bother? Is it fun to play vs people much worse than you?

Posted: **13 January 2026, 19:57**

smallgreenblur wrote: ↑06 January 2026, 20:57 I hadn’t encountered any smurfs for over a year but have run into three this week - why do people bother? Is it fun to play vs people much worse than you?

I think those people had reached a pretty good ELO and they wanted to keep that. So they opened a new account and play on that without losing elo on the main account.

Posted: **01 February 2026, 11:26**

Yeah I think you are right, now I am in the 300-400 range I seem to run into that kind of player more.

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