Quote Originally Posted by GordonGeeko View Post
I'm starting to get a little triggered by all the people saying : I was a Crystal player, I made it to Crystal in S1 and S2.

No.

Making it to Crystal in S1 was not an indicator of much. Everyone was learning the mode, there were people picking it up faster than others sure, but pretty much everyone was at a low skill level. Also, with no de-ranking, anyone spamming enough games could get a lucky winstreak at some point and climb out.

Resetting everyone to Bronze was ultimately a good thing to figure out who is a Crystal player. Because a Crystal player can carry low-rank games on pretty much any class. Sure, some classes are more reliant on your teammates performance and that can be an issue sometimes.

Now, it's not all great, the high-rank queues are pretty much always dead and you always get the same 10-15 players over and over. I personally think there's enough good players, they just don't see the point of playing ranked with the current rewards structure.
A crystal player carrying a group? Yeah ok under what circumstances... i can get the right kills with mch but if the team cant follow up, there is no winning.