Quote Originally Posted by Xel View Post
Steamroll all you want, you won't go anywhere without the luck of drawing a team that isn't clueless.

My simple point was that it used to be an instant queue, then 10s, 20s, 30s, etc.

Time goes up as fewer folks bother playing. The mode is dying out faster than Season 2 and far faster than Season 1.

That happens because no one wants to play after hitting Diamond with a rare exception.

The squish of Unranked-Plat tries to disguise things, but the math doesn't lie.
I mean, I've reached crystal both in season 1 and season 2. I'm taking season 3 pretty casually and I blew through bronze and silver. Took me maybe an hour to reach gold 2. If I played the amount I played in season 1 I'd probably be crystal already. If you're playing a lot of matches and not getting out of gold or plat then the problem is you. You're gonna get some streaks of bad matches and that's frustrating, but if you're actually good you'll climb.

I dunno how it is over on the crystal data center, but on aether the queues are still instant.