2019 Borders

SINCE YOU’RE ADDING IRON TIER, WILL BRONZE GET A BORDER? Going forward, you’ll actually have ranked armor and a loading screen border regardless of rank. That means Bronze and Iron tiers will both get borders when we start the new season. So why the change? When we started exploring the updates we wanted to make to Ranked, one of our big goals was to give you regular milestones and meaningful goals regardless of skill. To do that, it’s important that you be able to see and feel your progress from game to game as you’re climbing. If you don’t have ranked armor or a loading screen border below a certain skill level, you’d miss out on the awesome feeling of promoting from Iron to Bronze and seeing your armor and loading screen border level up when you queue for your next game. We think a better way to differentiate high skill players is to make their armor and border look more bright, polished, and visually impressive, so that’s what we’ll be doing going forward.

This seems like a way to open up harassment to lower skilled players as if they didn't have enough to deal with.

Personally, I haven't played Ranked in 2 years, and the only time I "Played" Ranked, was in Flex Queue. I only played this year because you had to be placed to play in Clash, (And we all know how that worked out...) I just... don't care enough.