I wonder if others also have this feeling that during evenings smurfs are more prominent.
I’m silver 3 for some time and when I play during lunchtime I win all the games. Not super easily but I win them. Then I go up in ranking and in the evening when I play again I see a drastic increase of skill in my opponents. Which makes me barely win or loose and then I go down again few slots.
I have to say it’s quite annoying and I consider not playing competitive any more during late hours to finally be able to jump to gold.
During lunch time most people have other things to do, so the people you’re playing against are professional stoners. After school / work / whatever you get a lot more people. Stay up late enough and you get the drunk and stoned crowd that’s easy to play against.