Streak Rating Question.

[awpertunity]

Being promoted or demoted has nothing to do with streaks. Streaks just in general help increase or decrease your skill rating by a noticeable amount so there's just a better chance you get promoted during the time you are on a streak.

Whether it's better to take the loss ASAP or wait it out depends entirely on the other games you got going on. If you are going to win 4 more games, then it will actually hurt you to wait, as the loss will take more points away from you because your skill has gone up in that time. If on the other hand you lose 4 games before letting the original game time out, that original game will hurt you less because your skill is lower.

The devs actually made a post about this a while back.