It's a strange feeling, being demoted. I mean, I knew it was only because I had worker rushed 100 games in a row, but nobody else would. If they looked my name up they would see that I was just some bronze noob. Fortunately, Battle.net 2.0 feels like an empty void, and nobody is around to actually look at my rank. Still, I added the "Platinum top 50" feat of strength to the achievement gallery of my profile, just to mend my slightly bruised ego.

I was a douchebag of a kid. A bully in real life, in game I took to griefing and flaming. i was the kid who hid all his peons in the Garden of War after he had lost the game. i was the kid of refused to turn on allied victory in your "7v1 Compy Stompy" game as I constructed 12 dragon roosts in my base.

I just started typing shit. Soon it didn't matter if they had BMed me first, or second, or even said anything. I hurled EZs around; I demanded people leave the game. I called people retards; I told people to uninstall..... I was flaming bronze newbies, people literally new to the game. I was getting into flame wars and "owning" 12 year olds and Latin Americans with my default superior grasp of the English language. It was an even more pathetic BM than normal BM, because I was executing a strategy that only works on noobs, and if it failed I had a built in defense: It wasn't supposed to work. I was BMing with impunity in addition to anonymity. I even rematched a few bronze leaguers in a "real game," flaming them the whole time, knowing full well that they stood no chance against me. What was I doing? What the hell was wrong with me?

Because with each passing season, fewer and fewer people play (if you believe some TL posters, I alone am responsible for driving away hundreds of bronze leaguers on worker rush at a time), and the leagues therefore shrink. So while in season three, my MMR was resting firmly in bronze territory, it has now evidently overlapped into silver as the bronze league has constricted slightly. The opponents should be the same, but the new leagues give a clear demarcation between bronze and silver, whereas before it was just a bunch of bronze and thus impossible to tell who was "high" and who was "low."

So basically this means that if I time my play hours to right when schools are letting out, I ca encounter the largest possible number of bad players while minimizing the number of good players I have to face...