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Valve is changing the way is played, at least on a meta level. , players will be required to register a unique phone number to their accounts in order to queue up for ranked matches. That's one account per phone number, ostensibly placing a hard limit on the number of ranked accounts that any one player can have.
Before you get any fresh ideas, online services that provide virtual phone numbers won't work in this new system. Nice try.
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