Wait....no blue essence after every game? Confused...

So I was playing on my Smurf (level 7 currently) just playing bot games and I noticed that I still only have 2242 Blue essence. I've played 6 games total today and still haven't received any of the essence. I'm pretty sure that I didn't receive any from the past 2 or 3 days I've been playing either but I just noticed today. I tried logging out and logging back in and that doesn't work. I did submit an issue but was just wondering if anyone else was experiencing the same thing

Edit: Reading this from someone else: I had this same question a little bit ago and was informed that the only way to attain BE now is by ranking up. In each rank-up chest you will get champs that you can break into BE. Is this true? You don't get it after games like IP? I'm so confused....I haven't been playing much after season ends...this is so dumb if it is...