[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Bat Z PG [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Baaaaaaaaaaaaah [quote][b]Posted by:[/b] Jay120171 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.[/quote] I should have mentioned I have tested this as well a bunch over the last few months. The rule of thumb I came up with when I make a one month is to play by myself until I hit rank 10 in a playlist. Good to go with your team after that.[/quote] That's exactly what we tried a couple of weeks ago too and it works. One should never play in the party you intend to play most of your games with from the start so level 10 is a pretty accurate theshold.[/quote]Yea, starting out playing randoms may be the way to go but I wanted to test it out for folks who have already been playing in an exclusive party. Also I wanted to see if it only took a very small number of games to prevent the handicap. Hopefully, between you testing and mine, others will know what to do to get unstuck in this situation.