I recently started playing Valorant after switching from CSGO. It truly feels like half my games have a smurf at the Silver and Gold level. Either a player on my own team admits it, an enemy player admits it, or someone in the lobby is 31-3 as Sage. I understand smurfing is going to happen but anything that adds another barrier is a plus in my eyes. It's a motivation killer to our group when it feels like smurf after smurf in our lobbies.

Edit: *Prior to the ability to purchase Prime status on CSGO*, you had to verify a phone number. This allowed you to only play against other players who have also verified a phone number. If I remember correctly, VOIP numbers like Skype do not work so getting another phone number is not as simple as it seems. In my experience, this greatly reduced the frequency of smurfs since a phone number can only be used once to verify an account. It's not a perfect system but it seems to help.

Thoughts?