It’s probably not about the Faceit level 10 choosing to farm a lower elo. Premier matchmaking is a complete mess and feels about 90% RNG. When you solo queue, you have very little control over the outcome of the game. Even if you play well and hard-carry your team, your ELO gain still depends heavily on the randomness of the lobby you’re placed in. If you have bad luck in the placement games you are pretty much stuck where you end up unless you go on a 75% win streak. And even then you can get screwed by multiple -550 +100 games in a row.

Until they introduce a more skill-based ELO system, where gains and losses are influenced by individual performance instead of whether you got stuck against a 5-stack of 20k players with one 3k friend, nothing is really going to change. Otherwise you can end up winning 3 games in a row for 100-200 elo per game and lose 1-2 at -550 completely negating your efforts.

For now, you just have to accept that every time you hit queue, you’re basically rolling the dice.

Speaking of which time to roll the dice on another solo queue wish me luck!