Quote Originally Posted by OskarXCI View Post
1. They made it so you won't be reset back to zero at the beginning of a new season. You were just downgraded two tiers.
2. Only your highest recorded rating matters, not your current one.
3. Never adding rank decay.
1. Without skill based matchmaking, this was the best move they could make to limit how many previous Diamond level player would be teamed up against brand new players in the next season. Imagine people queueing up for the first time and getting demolished their first 100 games because they have to go against previous top100's. Was it perfect? Not a chance. Hopefully the "skill based matchmaking" they mentioned will help fix this.
2. Agree and disagree. It being the highest helps promote people to queue even if they are on a loss streak, which makes queues pop more. This can be both a good or bad thing imo.
3. This wouldn't fix anything. The players who stop queueing because they are "safe" would still only queue the bare minimum amount, and that would not affect the board as much as people think it would.

Top 20% sounds exploitable. Just have your FC queue for one ranked game so the margin for the top 20% gets wider and wider till you only need gold to make it, but I do think it should be updated. I am still of the mindset that they are getting rid of the "top" thing and just making it achievement based per season, but we will have to wait and see.