ik it dosent work i do it on bots but i lose on the 4th or 3rd game
People Aritifically inflating their Rating by playing low rated opponets.
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The only cool term I know from here is "sandbagging" but I'm not sure that's it
Sandbagging is when you intentionally lose games. I don't think there is a name for what the OP was asking.
Sandbagging isn't intentionally losing games per se. Sandbagging is getting a rating that's way lower than your actual strength. One way of doing that is to intentionally lose games, but if there are other ways a sandbagger will use that. Losing games intentionally isn't itself the "sandbagging" part. It's just the means to an end. The actual "sandbagging" part is giving the impression of being a beginner and then proceeding to crush semi-strong opponents (for whatever reason the sandbagger's mind concocts; maybe just to troll, or to sabotage people's ratings).
If a super-strong player creates a new account and starts with its default rating (eg. 1000, or whatever it might be), that might technically be considered "sandbagging", but in practice it isn't, as sandbagging implies intent. I suppose it depends on why, with what motivation, the super-strong player created the account and chose the low rating (assuming it can be chosen).