Ranked CC long queue times

Sitting at D3 and queues are 30+ mins? Is this Rival Wings do I just have to pray I get the 9 other diamond or crystal players to queue up for a chance at Crystal?

Late season blues~

I wonder what could've caused this.

Ok it seems like waiting for the map to roll over is a decent time to queue

Ranked is at its most active during the beginning of Season and at the very last few days. There's no point to play it if you already have your ranked rewards from previous Season as you can get anything else (achievements, currency, Series rewards) faster from Casual.

Its a mix of things. PvP isn't popular in this game, its late in the season and they didn't add anything new to the vendors so the crystals you get are worthless. Topple that with de-ranking and a lot less people are bothering to queue. Yes it sucks to get people in crystal that probably shouldn't be crystal, but this game being as hyper casual as it is just means those people are less likely to keep playing when they keep de-ranking. Also certain maps the queue dies down. I've noticed the wind map has the longest queue times.

It's almost like not having rank decry has and will continue to be a terrible design the dev team still stubbornly clings to.

Knew this was coming, Nobody particularly cares about Ranked anything in the first place so late season is just gonna be worse for people when trying to matchmake in CC.

Once people get the ranked rewards for higher tiers they stop caring.

Up the tomestone rewards for winners and you'll see people pouring in.

I mean there's sadly no real reason to renew crystal ranking unless you want to throw yourself at the top 100+ titles and such. Most of those frames are pretty ugly though and since the crystal accent doesn't have year options there's no real point. I did some at the start of the season, but it got really boring really quickly this time around.