fix the archaic best 2 out of 3 (3 out of 5) promotional series for all tiers

SupaSP123··1 votes·1,001 views

For casual players as well as players who play the game religiously nothing is more stressful or nerve-racking and most of all NOT FUN, than a promotional series of games. I myself have been in my promotional series for support now 3 times to get to silver, my win rate over the last 20 games was at 65% I was consistently playing well and for my team to win and no matter what situation happens you can take all of that out of the equation I am now playing a game that is much more stressful because for some reason this game of league is more important than the hundreds of others that I am supposed to deem equally important due to the competitive nature?!?!?!?!? I guess the main reason I don't understand it is because it feels like a system designed to keep people in whatever MMR or tier they are in, take master tier and higher, there are no promotional games....... So you mean to tell me that the bulk of the player base has to abide by a ridiculous rule in order to advance however if they get past a certain tier the games ranked format transforms into a similar format seen by almost every other fucking competitive game and system made. I guess I want to start a discussion on why the games ranked format is so different for diamonds players and under, why there is even a promotional series of games when a player has to grind points to 100, shouldn't they be promoted for winning 65% of their games, the only thing it does it get people hard stuck, I don't know how else to describe it but I want to uninstall this game, 4 promotional series in a row ruined by bots (yess there are fucking exp bots in bronze idk why but they exist) afk players, and most of all teammates that don't care if they win or lose because that game is not their promotional game.......... I think that might be the biggest reason why I don't think promotional games shouldn't exist is because to my bronze, silver, gold, platinum whatever teammates that anyone has if its not their promotional game, its just another game to them. What I am asking for is that every game should be and feel like a promotion not just those special 3 or 5 games that you have to grind for.

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Saezio2 votes

Just to be clear, I am all for removing ranks and keeping MMR only as our VISIBLE elo

Saezio2 votes

Even the spastic Riot commentator's use phrases like "wE NeEd a 4k ElO shockwave fRoM faker"

Saezio1 votes

Well, since we have ranks, we need promotional matches. If riot ditched ranking and replaced it with the ELO like it was seasons 1 and 2 it would be nice.

Also, if you lose a promo, you get a free win in your next so you just need to do 1 win 1 lose and you are through.

SupaSP1231 votes

i just want to make sure I understand you correctly. Its okay because once I win my next 7 out of 10 games to get back in I only need to win one of the next two games, but if i win on the third and I still won 8 out of 13 of my games to have more than 100 lp in whatever division I am in I shouldn't be promoted........ I'm just saying overwatch I get over 1500 I'm silver, 2000 I'm gold, 3500 I'm in master, it never makes me play 2 out of three games to get into the next tier I just need to win, rocket league point system no tow out of threes here just have to win, halo point system but lets just double check to make sure, nope no two out of three promotional games........ I cannot think of or know of any other competitive system that does this and I want a logical answer to why it exists besides the one i gave where it purposely keeps players stuck in their divisions they are already assigned and makes the promotional process lengthy and sometimes impossible for casual players. Why would you need a promotional match once you hit 100 lp in B2, congrats you've been promoted to B1 0 lp, I don't think that is unreasonable or not normal.....

Saezio3 votes

The reason is psychological. With the current system, a lot of people can blame matchmaking etc. With the old system there was only one's self to blame. And there was no bottom in the old system, you could be at 800 elo and still fall xD

Then they introduced bronze silver gold etc.. and people that used to have trash mmr/elo got to silver and somehow they feel good because there is a whole division bellow them. xD

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