Queueing in Ranked as a different ranked

[Aenvulf]

I am currently seeing the 2nd ranked person on the top 100 that is supposed to be crystal level queuing as Diamond. Kind of great seeing people cheat the system and be rewarded for it.

[Elfidan]

Do you understand how the ranking board works?

[Aenvulf]

apparently not

[Elfidan]

If there aren't enough crystal on your DC to populate it you will see Daimond on it. Crystal and Diamond queue together but Crystal never queue with Platinum. That's why the lower half of Aether is Daimond at the moment.

[Nanne]

Leaderboards only show the highest earned rating for that player. They could have 6000 crystal rating and still nothing would stop them from demoting all the way down to diamond/platinum and playing matches there

[ThaCa]

Sometimes people hit streaks one way or another, I've seen plenty of others bounce back and forth between low plat and high diamond during the early season climb.

[Aenvulf]

thank you. I did not recall this happening before in season one.

[ThaCa]

They changed the system because of complaints on how it encourages sitting on your points and not playing. I like the current one more because you can keep pushing while not worrying about what you have already gained before.

Of course this can reward people with some strong lucky streaks, but I'll take it over getting to X and not playing at all.