This is why I hesitate to even start playing online again after having not played for quite a while. How can you even expect to improve if you get kicked anytime you join a game for being new?

hehe...nice

The ladder was reset on June 25th, wasn't it? You haven't played "since the start of beta," you played 'back in beta,' which is to say not within the past four months.

If you're getting kicked from games you must be pugging, why not just play pantheon to buid your record back up a bit? It's generally faster than sitting in lobbies and we could use more people in queue.

I know it's annoying getting kicked from games, but the ladder season has just been going for so long now that 90% of the time someone has few games it's going to mean they're new. You're a very, very rare exception, but for better or worse the community is so small you'll probably get some name recognition soon and it'll be a non-issue.

Nice to have you back Dalzk, hit me up if you are struggling to get in a game. I think you are surely suffered enought with those results agaisnt Spurs and Villa.

Is it really that hard to play several games and bring that number up?  I can't tell you the number of people that cannot read and join games they should not be joining.  I am not going to take the time to investigate everyone's gamelists before kicking them or leaving the lobby.  I'll look at games played and win rate and make the decision right then and there.

For every one of you that may be pro with 2 games played showing, there are 100s of noobs with 2 games played showing and joining "pro" only games.

I always check the stats of every player.  I never click through to the gamelist.  The exceptions are so few as to not be worth the extra 3 seconds per ~10 people you need to check to start a 3v3.  You want people to stop kicking you, play 15 games, and since you are appaerntly so uber you should easily get to 12-3.  At which point, people would stop kicking you.  It's NOT OUR PROBLEM - IT'S YOURS. 

Agree with Dalzk here's another guy comes to mind http://pantheon.demigodthegame.com/games/player/11216/page/1

I only remember him cuz he was godawful and kept telling me his ranking was bout same as me so my advice in game wasn't needed. Watch out for the tricky patheon stat padders, if you're host you have to do the extra click when searching peoples' stats.

I play Pantheon and I will play any pro any time

The fact that I already have to tab out to even check win rate is a pain in the ass.  Not too mention that I need to run down the stats of the other 5-7 people in the lobby to make sure they can read and understand the title of the game.  So after spending all that time checking those people out, I really don't have the patience to then check out individual game lists on the off chance that your # of games is inaccurate.

You're kidding, right?  Why don't you just say you are good the second you join the lobby?  Why put the burden on the person who is constantly having new players join their game?  Second, it's not just the host that is checking your stats, but your teammates as well.  I regularly leave games when my teammates have nub stats.  Why go through the pain of playing when your teammate is just going to feed?  You may be the exception, but for everyone of you, there are hundreds that aren't the exception.  If the host is not on the ball, the good players will leave.

Who said anything about using the ladder to decide how good a player is?

He doesn't play custom games, so it's not an issue, is it?  

Anyway welcome back Dalzk