3v3 Ranked Placements

JHHIV··6 votes·2,242 views

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WARNING! THE FOLLOWING POST INCLUDES AN ANGER INDUCED RANT ABOUT MATCHMAKING, TRASH ME IN THE COMMENTS IF YOU'D LIKE. I HAVE NO FEELINGS AFTER WHAT JUST HAPPENED.

Hey everyone! Long time lurker here. This is my first post as I have never seen a point in logging in just to start or reply to something that I won't remember in 2 years, so go easy on me. I just wanted to bring up a somewhat touchy subject, and I'm going to try my very, VERY hardest to not caps spam or use language possibly offensive to some people.

First I'll start you off with some facts. My 3v3 Twisted Treeline Ranked Team, JesterIsAngr just finished our placements, hooray! BUT, regardless of our 5 games totaling 111 Kills, 64 Deaths, 117 Assists , 13 Double Kills, 2 Triples Kills, 4 Wins, 1 Loss, and 3 try hard personalities, we were ranked Bronze V. I've done a little bit of research and have heard down the grape vine that you are ranked based upon who you win and lose to. This can be somewhat difficult to calculate, for most teams you face in your promos seem to also be in their promos. Here's what we were up against.

21Ballers - 1/5 Placements complete, 1 loss. WON thescrubadubs - 2/5 Placements complete, 2 losses. WON Hobo Bros - Bronze IV, 5 wins, 11 losses. LOST PsychoDwarf Qc - Bronze 5, 1 win, 4 losses. We actually played them twice. We won Both WON PsychoDwarf Qc - Bronze 5, 1 win, 4 losses. WON

So, I suppose you could say that we only beat the bad teams and lost to the good one, but I have a huge problem accepting that, as they would not put us against other good ones! I mean, yeah, matchmaking is a small world in ranked 3's. But match us with some Silvers for the love of god, or maybe even some actual, oh I don't know, CURRENTLY PLACED TEAMS IN BRONZE!? Then we at least can calculate fairly where we belong!

I'd be fine with Bronze IV or Bronze III, but Bronze V is NOT where we belong. We are a moderately decent group! Sure, I could just suck it up and climb, I'd be happy with that, then I could prove that we deserve to be where we are! My team mates do NOT think the same way as me. They're a bunch of rum drinking couch potatoes ( Gragas ? )

Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not looking to be moved. I'm looking to help the whole community of completely moderately skilled Twisted Treeline players not wanting to be placed in a League they shouldn't have to scale up like Mount Everest. I mean, there's Yetis up there! Nunu

In fact, I like the whole "ranked based upon your opponents skills and how well you play against them" idea. It's perfect! My only issue is that we did not get enough good people to test our skills against.

CONCLUSION - Matchmaking not enough to assess the teams skill. SOLUTION - 1. Add an option to do 5, 10, or 15 placements for your team. Maybe when you get to 5 it will tell you where you're at and give you an option to prove yourself? 2. Spread the matchmaking to at least Gold based on how well they did a game ago! It's not hard to figure out that they lost to a Gold V team, then won to a Silver II team that they should next play a Silver I team. THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE! I know that there isn't enough people queuing up for that to work, but maybe just a rough average?

Thanks for reading if you made it this far guys. Let's start a debate! Comment if you agree, if not, give me your side!

7 Comments

GanksLikeGaston4 votes

A large part of it is the fact that your soloq elo is fairly low. And if you place low and don't belong you'll climb immediately. My 3s team went from bronze1 to gold 5 in 10 games, if you really don't belong you'll end up skipping tiers. We didn't even have to do our B-S or S-G promos. just straight from 69lp to the next division each time.

JHHIV1 votes

You are probably correct! We've made a collective vote to attempt to climb like your team. We will play 10 games and post results. Let's get to the bottom of how this works!

BLU Medic2 votes

A single player HAS to play 10 placement matches before they're put into a rank. It seems ludicrous to have a team only play 5 matches. But I think the issue may be that the 3v3 team pool may simply not be big enough to give you enough people to fight against.

Yankova4ka1 votes

I know that feeling..Me and my friends created a team and we won 3/5 5v5 games we got placed in bronze IV. Same thing with 3v3. This is just dumb..

The Bíg Ticket1 votes

Created 3v3 ranked with my friends..we are all Platinum, won 3 lost 2 got place in Bronze I.

Sukishoo1 votes

If you belong elsewhere then it's pretty easy to climb up. My team started Bronze V and after 12 games we're up to Bronze 1. So if you're gaining enough points you can skip divisions, promos and tiers.

Renaille1 votes

Climbing is super easy so it shouldn't matter. I've done placements for a couple of TT ranked teams and never got placed lower than SII(going 5-0)

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