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I lose so many gunfights in this game compared to cs (LE rank, im silver rank in val). The main thing that is bothering me is the initial first bullet. It always seems like the game considers me as still moving even though I counter strafed...

I am currently stuck in silver and I see so many posts about playing against smurfs and how it sucks but how can you actually tell it's a smurf? How do you know the difference between "Me and my team just played bad that game" and "We got...