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  2. Skill-based matchmaking - Wikipedia

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    Skill-based matchmaking is a controversial practice. In Call of Duty: Warzone (2020), streamers of the game often seek out "bot lobbies"—lobbies with less-skilled players. The Washington Post compared the practice to "LeBron James looking to join pickup games at the local YMCA".

  3. Matchmaking (video games) - Wikipedia

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    In many games, players return to the lobby at the end of each session. In some, players joining a session that has already started are placed in the lobby until the start of the next. As lobbies consume very few resources they are sometimes additionally used as a "holding pen" for players while a suitable host for the coming session is found.

  4. TrueSkill - Wikipedia

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    TrueSkill is a skill-based ranking system developed by Microsoft for use with video game matchmaking on the Xbox network.Unlike the popular Elo rating system, which was initially designed for chess, TrueSkill is designed to support games with more than two players.

  5. Netcode - Wikipedia

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    Netcode is a blanket term most commonly used by gamers relating to networking in online games, often referring to synchronization issues between clients and servers.. Players often blame "bad netcode" when they experience lag or reverse state transitions when synchronization between players is lost.

  6. Call of Duty: Warzone - Wikipedia

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    Call of Duty: Warzone [a] was a 2020 free-to-play battle royale first-person shooter game developed by Raven Software and Infinity Ward and published by Activision.It was released on March 10, 2020, for PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One as part of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare (2019) and was subsequently connected to Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (2020) and Call of Duty: Vanguard (2021 ...

  7. Warzone (band) - Wikipedia

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    Warzone (formerly known as Rat Poison) [1] was an American hardcore punk band formed on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in 1983. The band helped develop the New York hardcore sound, the hardcore skinhead style and the youth crew subgenre.

  8. Wargame (hacking) - Wikipedia

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    A wargame usually involves a capture the flag logic, based on pentesting, semantic URL attacks, knowledge-based authentication, password cracking, reverse engineering of software (often JavaScript, C and assembly language), code injection, SQL injections, cross-site scripting, exploits, IP address spoofing, forensics, and other hacking ...

  9. Kryptos - Wikipedia

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    The dust jacket of the US version of Dan Brown's 2003 novel The Da Vinci Code contains two references to Kryptos—one on the back cover (coordinates printed light red on dark red, vertically next to the blurbs) is a reference to the coordinates mentioned in the plaintext of passage 2, except the degree digit is off by one. When Brown and his ...