For those of you frustrated when creating new accounts and only playing with the same teammates. TS halts your progress when you and your friends create new accounts and you all only play with each other and never anyone else. It is a problem with the system that has been well documented in this thread. This weekend a friend of mine and I decided to test this out. We created new alts and went in to Team Doubles. We only played with each other and despite winning the majority of our games, we leveled very slowly. After 42 games with 12 losses we were level 13's. Then he got on his main account while I stayed on my alt and we played 5 games, winning 4, losing 1 and I going to level 16. The I got on my main with him on his alt and played 7 games, winning 7 and him going to level 18. After that we partied back up on our alts and began leveling normally. We played another 10 games, winning them all and going up to 26 for him and 22 for me. We continued playing and would go up 1 or 2 skill levels for ever 1 or 2 wins. So, this basically means you only have to play about 5 games with randoms or another established account to begin to level up normally. If you and your friends are going to make new accounts and only play together, you WILL HAVE to play at least 5 games while partied up with another established account or you will be stuck low forever.