Originally Posted by
Hyrist
Bouncing off of Snow-Princess's idea - I'd more of the mind of achievement on an actually-playing-the-mode scale.
Have non-ranked PvP 4v4, and in that version have a mini-version of a ranking system you have to do the first time around to qualify for Ranked PvP.
Have it have a lesser-build up than say the climb to silver, but require the same sort of qualifying matches we get during a promotion in Ranked. - Got to win 3/5 matches. Anything else is just time-gating, not skill-gating.