{"id":102511,"date":"2016-08-29T14:15:15","date_gmt":"2016-08-29T12:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=102511"},"modified":"2016-08-29T14:16:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-29T12:16:03","slug":"meet-the-man-with-the-lowest-possible-rank-in-overwatch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/102511-meet-the-man-with-the-lowest-possible-rank-in-overwatch","title":{"rendered":"Meet the man with the lowest possible rank in Overwatch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dale \u201cBacontotem\u201d Brown is officially the world’s worst Overwatch player, reports Kotaku<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

He was the first player to officially hit rank zero in Overwatch\u2019s<\/em> competitive mode, something that is much harder to achieve than it looks.<\/p>\n

While its easy to assume that all it takes to be the worst is standing there and getting shot, Bacontotem quickly discovered that the game actually had a “skill floor”.<\/p>\n

\u201cI bottomed out at about 18,\u201d Brown explained, \u201cwhere I could still pick Hanzo and my teams would just legitimately lose either via me being a bad character or by everyone else being self-devouring because they were angry that I refused to switch characters.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s so few players down there that I kept getting the underdog [skill rating] bonus, \u201c he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019d be with some mid-20s verses other mid-20s, but because of the underdog bonus, if I won I\u2019d gain a whole three-quarters to a one-and-half ranks per win.\u201d<\/p>\n

“I was at the point where I was sabotaging myself so hard,\u201d he said. \u201cI was on PC playing at a lower resolution, at a 30 frames-per-second cap, and on a console controller with all the settings shifted down to the absolute minimum so that my response time would be super low and horrible.\u201d<\/p>\n

So why did he do it?<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter I got my ranking points it dawned on me one day: Your average medium-skill person\u2019s probably going to be trying to show off, get started on Twitch, and everybody\u2019s going to be following all the high level players because there\u2019s just going to be a natural audience for them.”<\/p>\n

“I got curious: what\u2019s going on down at the bottom? I\u2019m sitting there thinking, \u2018I\u2019m not that great at these FPSes. Let\u2019s go see how bad it gets.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

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It takes a lot more work than you think to be the worst.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":234,"featured_media":102515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,3,11681,4],"tags":[31,665,21541,10096,21543,21539],"class_list":["post-102511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","category-pc","category-playstation","category-xbox","tag-active","tag-blizzard","tag-competitve","tag-overwatch","tag-rank","tag-worse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/234"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":102517,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102511\/revisions\/102517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}