Quote Originally Posted by Eastwall View Post
I don't see how a bronze finally getting a weapon after 4 seasons of grinding would invalidate someone that can get to top 100 to get 2 weapons per season.
It's been a while for me to confirm, but I'm fairly sure you don't go back to Unranked even after the 2 automatic tier drops at the start of each season. And even if you did, you only need to win a few games (no star penalties for losing) to get into Bronze. There is no 'grinding' required for Bronze unless you are intentionally queueing with only 2 buttons on your PvP hotbar, auto-running into walls and are entirely banking on being carried.

You can make an argument for needing to "grind" to get into Silver, but even that's not saying much. To me, it is less about invalidating anyone and more about neither encouraging effort or any prolonged participation by letting people sit at Bronze every season (by not deranking to Unranked) and getting rewarded for it.