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Terms used in accessibility research and practice. Each entry has a definition, common aliases, and category tags.

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Sandbagging
The practice of deliberately underperforming in a competitive setting to obtain a more favourable handicap, ranking, or matchmaking placement, then exploiting that advantage in later matches. Sandbagging originates in handicapped sports such as golf and is a known risk for any…
Skill-Based Matchmaking(also: SBMM)
An online matchmaking approach that attempts to pair competitors of similar demonstrated skill so that matches are appropriately challenging. SBMM is the dominant industry response to ability imbalances in competitive multiplayer video games, but it depends on a dense population…

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