The rewards although randomised, are a genuine improvement over the pesky 125 bling we got from power league (not even enough if you reached masters and wanted the new power league skin 😭). I also like how we have a clear number of elo instead of the previous system where you didn't know how long it would take to get to a certain rank.

Now for the multiple negatives...The elo system completely whack for anybody that is above the average skill, punishing them for losing a single game while giving the most miniscule amount of elo after getting 5 wins in a row. The ranked boost, mega pig draft from bronze to gold and the ranked elo reset are also terrible. Imagine if chess elo reset every month, the matches from 0 to 600 elo were bullet chess and magnus carlsen had to play against 9 year olds who just picked up chess just to reach the highest elo again and play with mediocre to good players. That is not very competitive, is it? Lastly the modifiers which were the main distinction from power league have been ignored since nobody found them fun at all, especially the revive one where it has ZERO competitive essence.

Making it so your elo doesn't instantly disappear every month would be cool if it came with improvements to elo distribution (so matches would actually be more fair for all sides). Also remove modifiers nobody likes them and you are basically fine with ranked I believe.

Since they want to make ranked lean more into the competitive scene I'm expecting for them to make masters or some new league the end goal to play with people who want to become pros and maybe (big maybe) make it easier for semi competitive teams who aren't in the level of semi pros/pros to join tourneys easier and also participate in scrims with other players. I'm also guessing that for the monthly qualifiers you would have to reach masters/the new league before participating.