What's everyone's ranked wait times?

[GordonGeeko]

You know what made it worse? De-ranking….

I know you really seem to cling to the idea that you were right about de-ranking killing ranked queues. That is not the case. Pretty much everyone that competes for Top 100 is quite happy about those changes. You'd be hard-pressed to find a Crystal gamer from S3 that didn't think it was a good idea.

There is such a difference in skill between Crystal games and Diamond/Plat players. With that "dynamic" matchmaking that came at the same time, if you were Plat 1 and up, you'd pretty much be guaranteed to be in Crystal games anyway. So, that de-ranking that was supposed to make games competitive never did that. It barely had any impact on who plays with who. Crystal 0s just had a new rank, but were never gone from high-rank games.

Unless you think the very few people stuck in Plat 4 to 2, who could not get win streaks going long enough to go back up to Diamond and who got discouraged would have been the saviors of the Crystal rank queues ? I guess we'll never know.

The ranked player base is just too small and it looks like it got a lot smaller. Maybe even smaller than it's even been.