lol

I have 38 games, and some good ones too so far! I get to play perhaps 1 game a night if I'm lucky!

But yeah, you can keep kicking me. We just did a 3v3 where everyone had 200+ games and I 35 and we swept the floor!

Quantity != Quality

Ontopic, what cel said.

and art students do?

You havent seen me

What year are you in?

Only people on social welfare would have more time to play than arts students.

stats are lying far more than most here think!

the most (not all) with good stats have them only because of selecting its mates, leaving lobbies as soon as they see someone bad. i have seen too many palyers with avg stats or even under 50% win being better then most 75%+ players i met. and that were not exceptions.

sure, no one can deny that the stats are an indicator, and often a quite good one. but most times people are overacting because of the stats. additionally we all now the stats are even not accurate! for many palyers there are losses counted that never happend and that's not all.

you should allways give one at least time to explain before kicking.

but the most stupid part of your reaction is not the kick. if you have doubts about his skills, ok. your right. but your answer, your first post here is simply stupid. a reasonable answer would have been:

"sry, that's the info i got from the fucked up stats we get here and i don't have the patiance and time to verify each player skills. i feel sorry if i underestimated you but trying to avoid the risk that's all i can do - my host, my rules."

a bit understaning for it's situation would be the least you could have shown.

Or you could join games that say something along the lines of "X number of games played", "noob/med/pros only", "greater than X % win ratio".

If you have 5 games in the last 2 months and you join a game that says "Pros only", then yes, you will most likely get kicked or need to explain yourself.  And then when your done explaining, you'll most likely get kicked anyhow.

Doesnt mean you cant play, just join games that are around your skill level.  Theres been a number of posts about noobs joining pro games and pro joining noob games, and pre's playing PUGs, etc.  It will always be that way.  Look at this way, if you have to explain yourself, your probably not as good as you think, and you might have a more enjoyable game elsewhere.

And if you your excuse is theres no other games to join, theres a special button called "Host Game" that you can click and it magically adds a game to the custom page list.  It even has your name attached to it, and you can set all the options just the way you like them, and you wont have to worry about someone kicking you because the reset erased all your gamez!

Games count is a reasonable indicator of expertise. Win/Loss is not exactly reliable, high for premades/Panth junkies, and the more selective players. Lower for those that pub and are underdog supporters.

Id prefer a 300 games player with 50% win over a 50 gamer w/ 80%. When it comes to the unfortunate tele/lock spam end of game the experience really shows.

It is simply more convenient, rapid, and probably equivocally accurate to look at stats vs discussing the lack of with someone and making a call from there.

There are definitely exceptions, and everyone knows stats are bordering practicality.

I've played the game since the first beta and have 137 games played since the last reset. I still got kicked from a lobby last night for being a "noob". It wasn't even from a "pro only" game or anything.

 People should focus more on creating balanced teams than kick everyone without the perfect number of games played/ win ratio.

Concerning the "balanced" teams, this game is just too hard to carry a noob (or more accurately it is impossible for a Pro to dominate 2+ competent players).  You can put a 70% 70% 20% team against a 50% 50% 50% team and the first team will get slaughtered because the 20% noob will 1) feed, 2) never assist, 3) wont know to lock flags, and 4) doesn't know what a portal scroll is.  There is a threshold level of competency you have to have before you can get a good game going.  I generally like to play games with people that have 50%+ win rate and hundreds of games under their belt.  At that point they should be competent.