Just why Riot added a new tier?!
It doesn't make any sense. They just added complexities to the ranked system. (especially for the new players)
We used to know that bronze always the lowest tier in any competitive game.
Difference between bronze divisions is too large while difference between gold divisions is too small.
Adding Iron allows them to take the 5 bronze divisions and make 8 iron/bronze divisions, without turning every other tier into 8. I guess they figured that every other tier can be spaced correctly with only 4 divisions each. So they're basically saying they've identified a vast range of players below silver who need more divisions to separate them.
I imagine it looks like this shitty MSpaint thing I made:
https://puu.sh/C150Z/6380831b83.png
I didn't include plat+ because too lazy
go watch the vod and read the article they made.
