Rank Start Sugguestion
I was thinking... and people are going to down vote this left and right BUT I think this would solve a lot of problems we have with our current ranked system.
TL DR: Everyone starts in bronze, Season resets 4 times a year. Why? To discourage paying for rank boost.
So placement right now can place you Bronze - Platnum based off your last season and your placement matches.
What if Placement could only place you somewhere between Bronze 5 - Bronze 1 no matter your placement last season it is 100% based on your placement matches.
Good players will be able to rapidly climb so this won't hurt them at all.
Players who belong in bronze will stay in bronze.
People who deserve higher will get higher.
So the begining of the season it will be a bit of a battle royal and a bit hard for the bronze and silver players yes. But this will help discourage people from paying to get their accounts ranked up. Right now people feel its a good investment because they think they can get there and hold that rank because it will carry over each year to a degree. But if they feel they buy it only to be sent back to bronze... They won't be willing to spend money on rank as much.
Right now a season also lasts 1 year... What if season restarted 2 or 4 times a year. Winter Season Spring Season Summer and Fall... This would also make the reset happen more often making even more discouragement.
This way if you rank up you carried your way there and deserve to be the rank you are. Less players will be smurfing as they will have to spend more time ranking up each season. So people won't lose to random high tier smurfs as often. That will only happen very early on in the season and the very end vs the entire season like we have it now.
Okay so now prepare for the down votes from all the Elo boosters who will lose money because of this!!!