RANT [From Someone Who's Been Demoted Into Bronze...TWICE...] Ranked is still MOSTLY about LUCK...
Yes, I insist, MOST of it IS in fact, just your LUCK of the draw, and by the way, getting promoted into Gold was ALSO from dumb LUCK, too. Why ? The ENEMY team had an AFK/DC from the beginning (not that they would have necessarily done too much better without him being AFK/DC'd from the beginning [only two of them on their entire team had any kind of hard CC & I had picked a Rammus as a lane-counter to Trondomare... surprisingly effective... I was also FIRST-TIMING Pre-Season Rammus {just for the pre-season, I have had prior Rammus-experience, just not until that time during the pre-season}]), then against another team, who had a composition that was broken A-F (due to BOTH Trondomare AND Lulu being in their composition), they thoroughly raped the shit out of most of us in the early & mid-game, took several of our inhibs, and nearly all of our turrets, too, but some-how, from the sheer LUCK of it all, they started getting complacent or something (although it could have been from part out-scaling [not that anybody EVER out-scales a team that has a god-damn annoying Lulu]), allowing my team to SOME-HOW make a come-back that promoted me into Gold, but as far as I'm concerned, that was STILL just dumb LUCK that got promoted. Demoted into Bronze ? Also LUCK (yeah, gee, THANKS, you 20+ teams in a god-damn ROW who FOUR-MAN-SURRENDER-VOTED against me into Bronze), and when I was in Bronze/Silver complaining about this crap, I was on the RECEIVING end of responses that I BELONGED in Silver, but now that I'm in GOLD, I bet those SAME fuckers are going to say that I BELONG down in Bronze, but as far as I'm concerned, I'm gonna get a BRONZE-V SMURF, and BEAT THEM ON THEIR DIAMOND MAIN-ACCOUNTS, JUST TO DROP THEIR DAMN RATINGS & TELL THEM THAT THEY BELONG ON A LOSS STREAK & DESERVE TO BE DEMOTED INTO BRONZE FOR LOSING TO SOMEONE IN BRONZE-V AFTER I BEAT THEM OVER & OVER & OVER (seriously, why the FUCK is this kind of behaviour EXTREMELY COMMON in ANY kind of on-line gaming environment that uses an Elo-Type Ranking System, people who go on their LOW-Ranked smurfs to intentionally ruin the scores/rankings of others, but are FAR TOO CHICKEN-SHIT to put their MAINS on the line against someone whose account could quickly knock their main's ranking off its High-Horse [MOST of them also BOUGHT their accounts as far as I'm concerned]). Come at me with the Down-Votes ! I WILL FARM THESE DOWN-VOTES UNTIL JUSTICE HAS BEEN SERVED!!!
