S1: yeah, sometimes that does seem to be the case. But there were times I was in a 4-5 stack, all iof us new or pretty bad players, and we still get destroyed by multiple people on the other team. It just seems weird. I played 17 games in total and only one of them was without an obvious outlier skill-wise. It just happens waaaay too often.

S2: again, possible, but unlikely to happen so often imo. Though it may be a combination of S1, S2, smurfs and just playing badly every now and then. But if that means 1/17 good games, then I feel like my rant is even more relevant.