In yesterday's Hearthstone stream I finally reached the legend ranks once more!
Now I'm mixing it up with some Heroes of the Storm.
Smurfin' USA Episode #8
Due to the current free hero rotation, I have enough heroes on level 5 to be able to play RANKED! Let's see how the placement matches will go.
If YOU are playing Heroes of the Storm on the US Server and you would like to get carried - let me know in the chat and we can play together.
Previous Episodes: #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7
I'm from Austria, so I usually play on European servers.
In online gaming, a smurf is an experienced player who uses a new account to deceive other players into thinking he's a noob (newbie). The purpose is usually to play against less skilled opponents who will under-estimate the 'smurf'. The expected result is that the smurf will pwn (dominate) his opponents and humiliate them further as they have been now beaten by an apparent noob.
Urban Dictionary: smurf
Quickmatch and Brawl for now
My US account level is quite low, I don't own enough heroes to play ranked mode yet. So I'll level up some heroes to level 5 and do quests to earn enough gold that eventually I'll be able to afford them.
My Experience
What I experienced so far was a Blizzard matchmaking system desperately trying to make sense of what was going on and balancing out the matches to the best of its abilities.
I got matched with some similarly new accounts in both my and the opponents' team. The skill gap was quite high, as there were some really new players on both sides, and some more experienced players with fresh accounts, like me.
Region
Preferred Game Server setting was Best Match. Strangely enough, that resulted in me playing on the Western United States server with a ping of around but below 200 milliseconds, that means borderline playable.
After I switched to Central United States instead of Best Match, I had between 120 and 160 ms ping. Better, but not perfect. Of course the higher ping is a disadvantage, but one that I expected and I have to deal with.
Highlights / Best Of
I'll create Highlight Videos of some of my clipworthy scenes - high skill plays or just funny stuff - in the near future.
So stick around, hit that follow button and look forward to it. :-)
Parlez-vous français?
I got paired with 
If you're looking for a French-speaking streamer and community, check out his stream. He mostly plays WoW, HotS and Hearthstone.
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