I like how the news anchors are cracking up because . the interviewees are super australian i guess , but to me they all sound the same amount of australian . I ' m just nodding along to the man ' s story while they ' re losing their shit <| sep |> One Down but the number of cops is Normal . <| sep |> Nice pic ! I think you ought to read this though <| sep |> Was hast du da fr ein Ungetm erschaffen ? ! Mach , dass es weggeht ! <| sep |> Anyone know why this would get deleted ? <| sep |> Actually , when Russia is included in Europe as it is , in the leaderboards , Europe seems to have the highest number of monthly active users , by a wide marginregistration required , but Russia alone is at 18 % of the player base , to China ' s 10 % So the leaderboard result is predicted by sheer population . It ' s also predicted by a number of other factors that probably make more sense to compare . Relative friendliness of communities , number of Boston Major invitees per capita per region . I would agree that 6 k today is comparable to 5 k 1 . 5 years ago . I just think that that means that some number of people who were 5 k in 2014 were underrated , and what we are calling inflation is in fact correct calibration . Where games are dominated by random factors , gaining rating becomes harder even for people who are underrated . There ' s also the impact of decompression of MMR . Because Valve uses a simple sum of team members ' MMR to handle matchmaking , the spread of MMR actually matters quite a bit . I think that it ' s good that players like Miracle , FaithBian , and Arteezy aren ' t currently treated as being interchangeable with other 5 ks , or just a few hundred points above 5 k . The difference between them and the average 5 K , even in 2014 , was not small .