Ranked Crystalline Conflict Active When?

[Osmond]

When are people Plat and above actually playing Ranked? After finally crawling out of Gold being paired with mostly bronzes and no ranks, I looked forward to better matches. however, I find that I cannot get a match after I get home from work in the late afternoon. It's 5:20pm EST and I have been in queue for over 70 min, which means the battlefield will rotate soon and get kicked out of queue completely. At what godawful hour is this busy so I can actually play?

Rank mode died when they introduce rank decay. Most predict after platinum you pretty much hitting the wall. Ended up becoming niche overtime. Haven’t touched the content since then so idk if there’s any improvement encouraging ppl to come back with the new map.

[RyanCousland]

Update: can confirm lower and upper diamond/crystal is pretty active with some plat, was at D5 after a month break now back to D2

[Ransu]

Rank mode died when they introduce rank decay. Most predict after platinum you pretty much hitting the wall. Ended up becoming niche overtime. Haven’t touched the content since then so idk if there’s any improvement encouraging ppl to come back with the new map.

They introduced de-ranking, which is fine. Rank decay is where if you don't play your rank will "decay" and lower. Games that have it usually have the decay set to once a week. It keeps people from just reaching the rating they want and just sitting on it by not playing anymore.