WHAT THE HECK IS UP WITH THIS ONE ADDITIONAL PLACEMENT MATCH?!?!?!?!?!

BatchBustsMeta·11/15/2016, 3:07:32 PM·1 votes·624 views

I played my placements scored gold 5, same place I ended last season. I'm like oh cool, now I don't have to grind back up, that's nice. Then I log in today, and it says I need to play an additional placement..... what... why....

So I play this placement, win the additional "bonus" placement match, win said match, and end up getting re-placed into freaking BRONZE 2??!?!?!? What???? how???? whyyyyyyyyy?!?!?!?

Riot trolled my ass HARD. -.-

1 Comments

Zielmann11/15/2016, 3:13:51 PM1 votes

Riot really dropped the transparency ball on this one. They needed to make an announcement post the moment they realized there was a problem with flex queue rankings, and not just some short post hidden in the dev corner: http://boards.na.leagueoflegends.com/en/c/developer-corner/3m3sPjar-odd-placements-in-flex

Long story short, rankings got screwed up. They had downtime last night to put out a fix. As a result, people need to play one more game so they can be placed again and the right place for their MMR.

Note: It's expected that everybody is going to drop, often significantly, with these placements. There was a soft reset done already, so you can expect to come out lower than you were at the end of last season. There'll also be another soft reset at the end of the preseason going into the official ranked season. Any games you play on flex queue during the preseason will be taken into account with your placement after the second soft reset (if you climb back up quickly during preseason, the second soft reset may not place you quite as low as the first reset did).