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Why do we have to play placement games?

The Toucher·1/27/2016, 3:19:13 PM·4 votes·1,262 views

Last season I ended in silver 3, i didn't play many games during the preseason, and after placements i was put in bronze 1 after winning 7 out of my 3 placement games. I have no issue with this.

However, i fail to understand why we even have to play the placements. I pretty much feel like my fate was decided regardless of how many i won or loss, like if i went 6-4 or 5-5 i feel like i would still be in bronze 1. I know that a friend of mine was in silver 4 and he went 6-4 and ended up in bronze 1 also.

So my question is this, why do we play placement games? If you all want to have me climb out of bronze, no problem, i can do that, but why make me waste 10 games of playtime. Just put me in bronze one, and i would have 7 wins and 3 losses trying to climb out of bronze.

I think riot realizes that putting too much weight on a few games is silly, because of the typical things that can happen like feeders/leavers etc, but if you aren't going to make placement games impactful in any sort of way, than they seem pointless to be honest.

For the record, I have time for two maybe 3 games a day realistically, and to play 10 games and to win 7 of them just to be placed in bronze 1 is actually really time consuming.

16 Comments

Magneto811/27/2016, 3:40:11 PM3 votes

Agreed. Placements should only be for new players. Players from last season should just be autoplaced based on their current MMR instead of wasting their time on a system that already knows where it wants to put you.

DeathBurst1/27/2016, 3:50:40 PM3 votes

I agree with you, mate.

In StarCraft, after a ranked reset, you only have one match to play to be placed into a "division" (SC2 equivalent of leagues). You only play the full placement series for your first time in ranked.

Live2LetDie1/27/2016, 3:44:27 PM2 votes

Placements are interesting. I trio with two d5s, i was p4, and they were placed p3 and I was placed G3 even though we won and loss together all 10 placements. Sure it will be super easy to climb since we are already winning at p3+ mmr but still your last season rank has way to much of an effect on placements.

alasarcher1/27/2016, 3:30:10 PM1 votes

You play them to see how low u gonna be placed. As silver 3, normally should be bronze 2 or 3 if u do good. If u do bad,very bad, u will end up bronze 4 or 5.

Korillo1/27/2016, 3:41:42 PM1 votes

It's a ranked reset. A new season starts fresh. If you want to get back to the mmr you were at the previous season, play the game and earn it like you did last year.