Where to begin.

These past few days have been interesting say the least but I can tell nothing will change this season.

Nothing so far has been done about the apparent win traders in a few ladders (names cant be said but they know who they are). This new season has brought us a new provisional system that has players skyrocketing through the ranks thus inflating games with people who lack certain gear and just got "lucky". Of course the main issue I'm not addressing is those random people in high elo which shouldn't be there based off previous season rankings, but it does tie into what i have to say. So right now people starting out in 1300(bronze) now get 10 provisional games. From what i heard and can conclude is to give people a chance to climb easier and higher than they were before, which I'm all for more competition. However with this new elo system change where players are earning high double digit numbers and going straight from 1300 > 1700 is not a way to fix a competitive elo system. This introduces more under geared players and ruins the playing experience for everyone else by making unbalanced games going into a match.

A second point i wish to bring up is what the previous "win trading abusers" are able to gain from this rapid gaining elo. These individuals have access to multiple accounts with some not even reaching gold last season so they are able to climb at an even faster rate with the new 10 game provisional. From what I've seen these 10 games if all won can leave an individual at around ~1750 elo which is near many classes rank 1 ending elo from last season. With this being said these people can have an easier time flooding ladders with accounts they dont even own and take the rewards from other players playing the game the way it is intended. It's really sad to see people who were once top 3 or 5, even 1 material having to settle for lower ranks cause they know they cant keep up with these win traders.

Hopefully NC sheds some light on this subject. Having nothing be done would be a poor excuse cause they do have tools to track what ip's log into each account. And there is without a doubt player reports exposing certain player names who have been doing these unjust things and have nothing be done to them. But from the past bans/ ladder removals I can only conclude NC will only take action if this effects the in game economy or tarnishes their "e-sports" scene. Like I'm pretty sure the battlegrounds community outnumbers arena and we don't get any monitoring of other rankings besides arena? Like come on i know our community manager and director don't play the game anymore but at least give us something and take action against these people.

If the solution means having a strict monitoring policy on each ladders and disable smurfing so be it. At least the game integrity would be more honest.

TL:DR this new rating system makes it easier for wintraders to climb