[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Sexbox [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] M4sterChief hehe. now that I've read this I can tell my friends to stfu and quit whining when they "win 30 games in a row and don't rank up" because it gets extremely annoying after hearing it about 1000 times (that's only a slight exaggeration people) I'll just tell them to read this thread, because this helped me make sense of how people's ranks can go up or down at a certain rate. [/quote]Yeah they should quit whining because they are being punished for consistently winning games and can only cure their nonranking up by purposely losing games. That makes sense! You're a moron.[/quote]Yea, there are a few cases of teams not leveling up when they ONLY play with each other. There are also a few cases of individuals not leveling up when they never lose. These are the exceptions and not the rule. Most people don't level up because they are only beating opponents of lower skill than them and losing against the higher skilled ones. They rush up to level 20 or 30 in a small amount of games, begin to lose and win equally and wonder why they are stuck. Anyway, you know all this already.