Casuals getting put in Ranked CC matches.

Pretty antithetical to the entire point of "ranked". People who are playing casual take it less serious than those who choose ranked.

Proof:

https://i.imgur.com/c8SzLyp.png

Completely separately:

Gold rank is getting pitted against Bronze, sizeable skill gap in matching.

WTF is going on with the matching?

You have to win 3 (or 4?) games to reach Bronze 3 in order to have a rank displayed. They are queueing for ranked, it's just one of their very first games.

Welcome to the beginning of the season.
If you haven't heard everyone's rank was reset to Bronze 3. Games will look like this for a minute, because majority are starting to climbing. So give it about another week for folks to climb, especially if you're in gold.

One thing I will agree with is the matchmaking being weird. I was being thrown into diamond rooms while I was gold rank last season. I would like to know if matching between 3 ranks is intentional.

fun fact, you will be matched with casuals regardless because people who belong in the non ranked mode will deliberately play ranked instead because its worth more their time

Yeah, that's an unranked player, someone that's very new and that has not reached Bronze yet.

Depends on your definition of casual, but it's not someone who queued "Casual game" and ended up in a Ranked match lol.

I'm not sure I agree that Unranked players should be in the same games as Gold players.

I prefer the old matchmaking system :

Unranked-Bronze-Silver could play together
Silver and Gold could play together, but Gold couldn't play with Bronze or Unranked

Having Gold with Unranked players in the same match seems a bit much...

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Originally Posted by GordonGeeko

Yeah, that's an unranked player, someone that's very new and that has not reached Bronze yet.

Depends on your definition of casual, but it's not someone who queued "Casual game" and ended up in a Ranked match lol.

I'm not sure I agree that Unranked players should be in the same games as Gold players.

I prefer the old matchmaking system :

Unranked-Bronze-Silver could play together
Silver and Gold could play together, but Gold couldn't play with Bronze or Unranked

Having Gold with Unranked players in the same match seems a bit much...

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Wha? You miss the old system? What changed your mind like that?

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Originally Posted by Osmond

Wha? You miss the old system? What changed your mind like that?

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Not having to deal with people win trading for 3 entire tiers xD (since you can play with unranked, its possible to get matches with ppl throwing on purpose all the way until plat)

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Originally Posted by VoidsentStatus

Not having to deal with people win trading for 3 entire tiers xD (since you can play with unranked, its possible to get matches with ppl throwing on purpose all the way until plat)

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I’m just laughing at this point. I knew this was going to be bad when the devs announce the change.

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Originally Posted by Osmond

Wha? You miss the old system? What changed your mind like that?

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The old Feast system, which had both demotion and matchmaking rules based purely on your rank.

This new CC system just has limited demotion and matchmaking that is wild AF. Not worthy of much praise.

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Originally Posted by GordonGeeko

The old Feast system, which had both demotion and matchmaking rules based purely on your rank.

This new CC system just has limited demotion and matchmaking that is wild AF. Not worthy of much praise.

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Ain’t nobody talking about the feast lmao. We’re talking strictly CC. Don’t try to walk away from this lol. You’re hype got us this dumpster fire.

Seriously, they might turn it back to S1/2 ranking if the feedback is heavily negative.

I'm not here to start a "Feast was better than CC" feud, because frankly, I don't agree with that.

But with all its flaws (and there were many), it did matchmaking right. You could not have a Gold player playing with an Unranked one.

Now, as clearly evidenced above, you can. Which will help lower queues stay active when it's later in the season and the mode is not as active. But now, with players of all skill levels being brought down to the same level, it's the wild west.

Going forward, if they keep the "losing 5 risers" rule, the high ranking people will not get brought down to these queues so it will be okay. But right now, it's wild, yeah.

It’ll be high ques in the first few weeks below platinum. It’s what happens after diamond rank is where the que system going to look like. When that happens, then we’ll know if it’s a good thing or not..

I LOVE being in gold one and constantly getting unranked people (2 at once) that don't know recup or guard exists.

This is not fun.

Mmm MMM! gotta love cheaters ruining stuff for others!