Hello, I am Sheep. I recently began my own free coaching discord and some of my students as well as complaints i've seen on reddit/discord make an accusation that if you play 1v1 at a low elo you'll get smurfed on or the fact that there are so many smurfs from silver-diamond you won't be able to accurately track your progress. 

After watching a lot of replays of accused smurfs i noticed that their opponent was just really good at 1 or 2 aspects of the game that countered their play styles (like a terran early push vs a protoss that likes to macro to the late game) and they would immediately call out a smurf because of the crisp timing attack.

So, I wanted to test this out for myself. Are all these GMs that I face on my main account really making smurf accounts and purposely keeping themselves at low mmr just to play easy games? Naturally, this seems counter-intuitive because these GMs are very competitive, but i had to try it out for myself.

I created a new account and speed ran from silver-master without a single loss or noticing any other smurfs across almost 30 different players (sorry to the terran who got me 3 times in a row). If you disagree with this analysis, have games that you are questioning, or are looking to improve your own gameplay message me on discord: sheep7940

There are not as many smurfs in 1v1 as you think.