Don't worry about it so much; shortly after patch 6.1 dropped and I dipped my toes into CC for the first week, I decided to join one of the active PvP Discords; just to get an idea of the different viewpoints and strategies folk had- plus any juicier drama i could read.

While in that Discord I read one a post of someone who was at a really high CC Rank (I wish I could remember what rank) , and in the matter of an hour he/she said that they had dropped down to Bronze Rank because of "RNG".

And this wasn't a one-off post, i casually read posts over the next few days that pretty much echoed the same thing: high ranks nose-diving down to Bronze simply due to bad nights/sessions.

The whole win-trading worrying in Crystalline Conflict feels very much a manufactured worry, because i just don't see how it's even possible to win-trade in this content. Even if people do the 1,2,3,GO countdown with friends, that doesn't even work as well as people think it does- people still get picked up and thrown into random groups.

The only possible way to cheat the system is.... well, actually cheat using methods no one talks about openly.