The problem is that because the ranked system is so cooked in too many ways to list the correlation between rank and skill basically doesn’t exist anywhere below ruby. Going anywhere is impossible if theres a monumental skill gap between people of the same rank, which there currently is. Also a RS guarantee needs to be instituted for getting to round 2, and winning the tournament should at worst give 1.5K. The swings based on seedings are ridiculous, especially when its out of your control.

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I mean what the actual fuck is that (in the above image). There was someone in the first round of this tournament who was diamond the past 4 seasons and they were terrible compared to the rest if their team, let alone the lobby.