So I played my placement match tonight (and again got declared a Gold scrub) and played a PvP against a slightly favoured 4-gater (which I lost, but hey I'm only Gold).
I noticed that Blizzard only penalized me -1 point, which has never happened to me before. I challenged that he was a smurf, but he vehemently denied being one, claiming that he was once a Plat who got knocked down to Gold. As far as I can see, he's not really lying about him being a legit Gold.
My question is that if he's really a Gold player like me, shouldn't I have been penalized even further in terms of points? Losing to a Favoured opponent = -10 points, but losing to this slightly favoured guy = -1 point.
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