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General DiscussionWhy so many so short games?

Why so many so short games? in General Discussion
Bakuarzan ツ

    It always confuses me. Why there are so many matches around 5 mins? I don't have so many games but I think I had maybe 2 that were shorter than 10 mins (I even looked it up, I had one game of 10:54, one more shorter than 20 mins - both are around 1% of my games).
    I know we have many leavers and so on but from what I can see here http://dotabuff.com/matches almost all games are so short and it feels kinda impossible as one in hundred of my games ends like that.

    Camcorder

      That list shows the latest matches to complete by match ID. Match ID is assigned at the start of the game, so matches with a short duration are much more likely to appear on the list.

      jimmydorry

        It is still counter intuitive to me. Given short games would clump, I would expect atleast one 30min+ game in the first 20 pages of games.

        whoji

          I always have the same question. I actually downloaded and watched one or two replays and they both ended with player disconnected.

          Vaikiss`742.

            cuz push strats ftw

            Gruber

              @Jason is right, listen to him.