Unless they tie over and over again till the end of time.
Then it lasts until one person disconnects.
The idea is that itās suppose to be really hard now because everyoneās in the same leagues now.
youāre not getting as much points either since most of the people youāll be fighting arenāt Killers.
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In a week itāll go back to being as easy as it was before. Right now you just have killers keeping people down in the lower tiers. Seriously, pro star bronze players?? I get that the qualifying matches place people in weird ways but come on.
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Yeah give it a week or more. Things "should " even out.
Itās a bit of a blow to the ego. Iām sitting in Silver and creeping slowly up. I qualified in bronze and flew up through it in less than 2 hours. Iām used to thinking of myself as a low tier Killer, but Iām playing a totally new character (Tusk) and honestly right now theirs like what, 15 people in Killer? Itās not going to be the way it was before and you arenāt going to go on a lucky tear in gold and stumble up to killer with the best of 3 Gold rank matches. It seems like they are making Gold the new ālow tier Killerā rank, which is kind of what people were asking for.
Itās tough, I know, because Iām having trouble not being disheartened by it as well. But as long as you are getting good matches, thatās all you can really ask for. The part that bugs me now is I get silver guys who are not great that I destroy, qualifiers who are lights out and Bronze players with multiple pro stars. I probably would say that it was a mistake to not just stick anyone with a pro star in Killer off the bat. But otherwise, this is just sort of what had to happen.
What worries me a little bit more is that although there are lots of people in ranked right now I donāt know if there is enough momentum to keep it populated with players who are not top 32 contenders. Right now on the leaderboards my mid-silver 0.500 win percentage Tusk is up over 50 on the Tusk leaderboards. I wouldnāt pretend that makes me good, in fact the opposite. It is ranking based on number of wins in ranked. The fact that fewer than 50 people are playing more Tusk than me in Ranked matches has me a bit worried about the health of the populationā¦
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Qualify was a bit of a let down for me as I started 5-1 , then got matched up with some good players and ended 6-4.
Doing well in bronze now at 5-1. Hopefully will move up fast when I get back on later tonight.
Iām enjoying the challenge of the new ranking system so far. I am in agreement that the previous ranking system to Killer felt a little easy. I made it to Killer even and was able to beat some other Killers but still felt like I wasnāt very good. Iām using only Rash in ranked this time around and am on the cusp of getting to Silver.
ā¦but Iām not getting good matches. Iām being matched with people who are worlds better than me (and thatās saying a lot considering my actual skill level) - for example, Iāve run into at least 4 different top 32 players on my way up through silver and into gold (and some of those twice over).
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This. First everyone and their moms were Killers. Now everyone and their moms are top 32 non-killers.
It is much harder to get killer status now. before it was way too easy, so this make the ranks matter a little more. I am glad to know that I wasnāt the only one getting discouraged though. Its way tougher this time around, and that is a good thingā¦ Last year i qualified in Killers within the first day. Now im working my ā ā ā off to get there. Now at least when i know im going against killer status that they are really good. Before, it didnt necessarily mean that because it was so easily achieved.
just adding myself to the list hoping for a roll back option in next patch, donāt like climbing up rank again 
hope it doesnāt come off as whiny
i think rank leagues are perfect as they are right now, season 2 was way to easy and pretty much everyone was a killer.
i will love if someday they implement something a la HearthStone were you start at rank 25 and you climb all the way to rank 1 and if you go pass that then you enter the āLegend (killer)ā ladder.
I disagree. Iām already seeing how much harder it is to progress through gold tier. Assuming it stays that way, Iām going to hate taking a break from ranked leagues once I reach killer tier (which, if it continues to be as hard as it has been to get to, I might actually do just that) only to realize that 1 month later Iāve been dropped to the bottom of gold tier again for inactivity for something Iāve already earned. Itās, IMO, wrong and further disrupts the whole rank = skill aspect that Iāve been arguing since the initial news regarding the rank reset and changes.
Going through the gold ladder is hard. I have only 182 points. All the people I lost were Top 32 guys.
Thatās more than I have. The highest Iāve gotten to was about 100 and Iām now currently hovering between 35 and 0ā¦ :ā(
i dont really care if you disagree, im stating my own opinion, i think is perfect as it is right now, if you lose your rank because of inactivity is your own fault, and i dont see how that ādisruptsā the rank skill aspect, the fact that you achieved gold or killer rank doesnt mean that you can just seat back and relax and keep your rank forever, ranks and leaderboards dont work that way.
ā¦and why not? If Iāve earned killer rank, I should always be able to say that thatās what I did, since itās supposed to represent skill. Being put back into gold tier just makes it represent skill even less than it already does (and for the same reason, so does requalifying). It becomes all about getting to the top and less about an individualās actual skill, if you know what I mean.
Hereās an example - they donāt take a gold medal away from an Olympian for winning at the Olympics 50 years ago. And sure, they donāt take away the top 32 stars away from those whoāve earned them (which is a good thing, BTW), but using a similar example, they donāt take away junior league trophies away from little kids (i.e., the rest of us) because they stopped playing just because they havenāt yet become the best in the whole world.
Iāve said it before and Iāll say it again - Iām fine with the whole de-rank into gold as long as there is something within the game that I can use to show others that permanently shows the highest rank Iāve ever achieved (basically, a star thatās not a star - even if itās some obscure stat hidden in a menu somewhere on the leaderboards, that would be fine), regardless of season.
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LOL!
comparing Ranked leagues to The Olympics? really?
all you are asking here is keeping your bragging rights, get to top 32 and THEN you get to keep it.
Same applies to other games like Hearthstone, if you get to āLegendā all you get is a card back and thats it, unless you make that your default card back no one is gonna know that you were a Legend Rank.