This NEEDs to be fixed, Crystal Conflict Fail.

[Nytes]

So apparently, I was today years old, that I learned if you enter a ranked CC match, and people leave, so you have to go 3v5 against the other team, it's a loss with no grace at all. So the people who stay are punished for because of people who leave. They left BEFORE they even said go. I'm assuming DCs or something of the sort, but when it says go, I wish it would have nulled the game and make us reque. Lost a steak, and a promotion possibility because we lost a 30 second match 3v5. Can anybody say why they just made it this way?

[Iyrnwaen]

Never seen that happen, but it definitely shouldn't work that way.
If people quit after the match starts, that's one thing, but if you've already lost people before the gates open because they failed to load in, the match shouldn't count against you.

[Nytes]

Never seen that happen, but it definitely shouldn't work that way.
If people quit after the match starts, that's one thing, but if you've already lost people before the gates open because they failed to load in, the match shouldn't count against you.

They left about 5-8 seconds after loading in, so we stood there for 20 seconds knowing it was a 3v5. Considering I had never seen it, I kinda assumed Square would prevent this by making the match a draw at start and nobody gains or loses anything. I was shocked when the match went out as if it was still 5v5

[Sinstrel]

I got put on a 4-man team during one of my Crystal promo games xD

[Raistlin]

Agree, leaving before the first kill should cancel the game and give the leaver a lost.

[Lymberey]

Oh.... that happened to me 2 times.

First one was I got a member DC'ed / leave leading to 4v5 and a loss.

Second one happened because of me as I got server connection lost immediately after the roster presentation. Luckily i was being able to log back in just in time to help my team (they were pushed back to the first checkpoint). We won that round. Kudos to those 4 guys.

[Deveryn]

I've seen this happen twice in casual matches. It's very frustrating to try and continue. I'd hate to see this in a ranked match. They need to implement some kind of Draw condition, along with a penalty for leaving. Whether it's intentional or not, someone needs to get themselves sorted out before trying to enter another match.