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In our recent matchmaking update [blog post] (http://blog.dota2.com/2019/09/matchmaking-update-for-the-next-ranked-season/), we mentioned that we were working on a mechanism to accelerate smurfs to their correct rank to minimize the side effects they cause, and that we’d be rolling it out slowly. We initially started with just measuring and tagging players, but without taking any actual action for a few days as we monitored the detection mechanisms.

As part of today’s update, we feel ready to activate the rank adjustment portion of the changes. The system searches for players that frequently perform significantly above their current skill bracket, and applies an MMR increase to those playe

We discovered and fixed a bug that affected MMR change during calibration for players. The bug affected a certain segment of players based on the values of their Core and Support MMRs. The fix for this is now live, and later today there will be an adjustment to the MMRs of the affected players to bring them their correct value.