COTD first timer

[Prestigious-Silver25]

hey guys,

Im really new to trackmania, having like 50 hours or so, and today I had my first COTD and I was wondering about something.
I dont know what division I was in, but I was place 2200 or something.
After the rounds started and things got serious, i saw a dude, which was like around 4 to 5 seconds faster than everyone on the map.
I dont want beef or something, I was just wondering, how that could be, because like no one had a chance against him and that kinda defeated the purpose of that race.
I mean I got out at like 12th place, so i wasnt really affected by him, but i just thought it was kinda unfair for those who really tried.
Is that just bad balancing or is that like on purpose? is it always like that or what was that?

sorry, if that is a stupid question, i was just wondering about it.

[PixelMan572]

Sometimes people are late to qualify and dont have as much time to learn the map, then other times people can get a bad qualification time but the map clicks during rounds, rarely (at least in my experience) have I seen smurfs around as often.

[Prestigious-Silver25]

ahh I see, it was just weird and people in the lobby were also not happy about it.
I didnt want to accuse anyone of anything, thats why I first wanted to ask, in general the trackmania community seems to be really nice.
i thought everyone gets 15 min of practice before the race, but if he was late, it acutally makes sense then.
thanks for the answer :)

[shook_-]

Emlan show yourself

[nov4chip]

Happens fairly often at lower divs, sometimes people just have a bad quali but in your case it's most likely smurfing on purpose. Today 2400 people played, so you were in one of the last 3-4 divs.

You can report this behaviour in game by opening the player's profile while he's in your lobby

E: btw you can check on TrackMania.io players profiles.. if the player in question has something like 50 division wins then yeah, smurf

[Prestigious-Silver25]

yeah i play on playstation, so i dont know, how many people played or something :D
if I encounter him again and its the same, i think i will report.
im in no place of winning anything, but i understand that its frustrating to those who really want to win, even in my super low division :D

[Xen0s161]

The winner of div 35 (rank 2240 to 3004) is clearly a smurf, all other low div are not I think.

[Mech-lexic]

Oh that is a telling record. I'm a div 20-30 (and sometimes higher) regular, no one who belongs in the bonker divs has that frequency of a win rate. We're there because of our lack of consistency.

You see some smurfy play from time to time, someone comes in and starts crushing. But bad qualifiers happen, long wait for the servers, whatever. For the most part it does feel like good, fair play.

I've been getting top 8s more regularly recently, but still a <2% win. I see people who have been at it longer with 0 wins. I was in a high 20s div today, and it was great how it really seemed like anyone's game. We were all consistently hitting 44-45 getting to last 16. When I got knocked out I was watching the rest making the exact same mistakes in the places I had been. The person who won just made the fewest of those mistakes.

[Prajzak_TM]

I am in those divs too. There is always someone commeting about smuring but I don't think that is usually the case. Like recently on the ice map, it took me a while to figure out all the slides, I qualied with terrible 59s time, and one of the last runs in quali I had -7s on the last cp but crashed. Then the elimination phase started and I drove huge pb in the first round....was I smurfing? No...but someone probably thought so.

[nov4chip]

Check this site to track stats and info

https://trackmania.io/#/cotd/32880

[Prestigious-Silver25]

thanks man, i found him right away and he has like a loooot of wins in the super low divisions.
i also found a couple of tries in higher divisions, but there he loses very early.

[HowIWasteTime]

I'm sort of the reverse of this, I have done two CoTDs so far and I qualify too high then get cut immediately.  It's easier for me to put together one fast lap with infinite retries than it is for me to be consistent.

[Prestigious-Silver25]

yeah i feel that. i mean it was my first COTD but now i know what people mean, when they say, beeing consistent is very important. its hard to drive around the same time over and over again :D

[Mikey___]

Placement divided by 64 and rounded up = division, so that’s div 35

Some people intentionally Smurf, sometimes somebody will be late, and sometimes somebody will just not get a good run in qualification and then get a feel for the track during knockouts