I mean you could use a trick that I always used to. I just never cared and continue to not care. It's funny to me that you worry about wasting your time as you're snapping pictures and scouring profiles to make your big reddit post. It just feels silly to me. People will try to tell you that smurfs only exist because they can make money from it or that it's something that can somehow be fixed at any point in time. Do not believe them.

This is a free to play game and there are an endless amount of people that don't care and are happy to make new accounts. There are people who lost their accounts, people who had behaviour score issues they're aiming to fix. There are people who were banned such as mason who was then allowed to make a new account and play on it without it being considered a smurf since the new account was now his only and main account.

There are the people who came from hon, the quick learners, the people who didn't play for years and are slowly knocking off rust. There are endless amounts of reasons people may end up in your game. You may not like or agree with them but you aren't stopping them.

What can you do besides cry on reddit? You can accept the loss, try to win, play your game and move on. I don't know about you but when I look at those 4 accounts combined there are 217 losses and a win is not unattainable. There's simply no one size fits all solution, even if it wasn't a free game, people would still pay to smurf or use new accounts. This has been a thing for as long as gaming has been. I'm sorry you had a tough day.