We weren't "abusing last patch", though. We didn't even play 5 games on it. It may be true that some Russian players had their ratings depressed or something.
Ohh there was abuse.
Hell, I started 1v1 last patch only to prove the point of how extremely easy it was and I did.
I gave a long game to jesulin only because of bad balance we had.
Now I'm slowly dropping with my germans to where I should be.
Me and ~70% of the playerbase who plays exclusively germans as well.
Difference is, I'm not bitching bad balance, because I know I went so high because of bad balance and now the balance is equal its suddenly "bad balance" or "soviet advantage" for braindeads who can't accept the truth they they are not as great players as they think they are.
I'm not talking "you" as you, personally. I'm talking "you" as the people who complain about the balance being in soviet advantage when every single top player will tell you that germans are the ones with advantages now despite balance being quite good on all game stages.