Citations:Elo hell

English citations of Elo hell

• 2013 April 8, Francisco Hernandez, “President's Column”, in Critic Te Arohi‎^[1], number 6, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 47:

  I hope that your break went as well as mine did. I finally climbed through the depths of ELO hell and ascended into the plane of Bronze I in League of Legends

• [2013, “Class of 2013 Prophecy”, in Uni High Yearbook, page 138:

  […] becomes a professional League of Legends player, but after a crippling bout of Carpal tunnel, he loses his skills, and gets stuck in ELO Hell.]

• 2016, Martin Andersson, “Who am I now?” Sense of Gender and Place in Digital Gameplay‎^[2], Karlstad University, page 27, footnote 13:

  An interesting tension between these two modes of the relation between a players perceived skill level and actual skill level can be found in the phenomenon known as ‘being stuck in Elo hell’ ( […] ) in League of Legends, where some players complain that the matchmaking system does not work, and they are forced to play with less-skilled players than themselves, but unable to achieve a higher rank.

• 2018 February 20, Christopher A. Paul, The Toxic Meritocracy of Video Games: Why Gaming Culture Is the Worst, U of Minnesota Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC:

  A guide to ranked games in LoL contends that Elo hell is a figment of players' imaginations

• 2019, Aiden Buckland, The argonauts of esports practice: Zooming in on the practice-networks of everyday gamers‎^[3], University of Calgary, →DOI, page 114:

  It is in these unranked matches that a wide variety of skill and competency levels are displayed in the game, which creates a less predictable environment for more informed players, which is commonly referred to as ELO hell (personal communication Roman, Dec 3).

• 2020, Kathryn Fedchun, A Feminist Autoethnography: On Hegemonic Masculinity, Failure, and Subversive Play in League of Legends‎^[4], University of Ottawa, →DOI, page 38:

  The game ends in an infuriating loss and I watch as my League Point score goes down. Another day in iron. Another day in ELO hell.

• 2020 June 11, Veli-Matti Karhulahti, Esport Play: Anticipation, Attachment, and Addiction in Psycholudic Development, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 143:

  The best thing about reaching Silver III is that I'm finally out of Elo Hell. In League, Elo Hell signifies the lowest ranks and the difficulty of climbing up from there due to increased randomness factors

• 2021, Jackson Schwalb, Socialization and Civic Engagement in the Virtual Field of Video Games‎^[5], Illinois State University, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 44–45:

  This has also bred another new term as well, “Elo Hell,” which refers to getting stuck in a specific rank tier and being unable to increase your position due to a number of factors like bad teammates or matchmaking issues. In his study, Daniel Espinosa wanted to determine if Elo Hell was actually real by looking at players current rankings compared to what his model projects their placement based on their true skill and performance.