Why "Rank Demotion" Shouldn't Really Exist

@Midnight9746 Imo once you get to a rank you stay there, earning the rank badge for whatever split. The only thing that makes it fair is if at the start of the next split, everyone in that rank gets reset to (insert rank) level IV.

To get the rank badge for said next split, you would then need to get up to (at least) level II of that rank in said next split.

Obviously preds get reset to Master IV, and away ye go boys 😃

@Midnight9746 really don't see why diamonds have to repeat the fact that they can stomp silver and gold (or even bronze after a second split) lobbies each split. 

Doublelift, a famous Leage of legends streamer and ex-pro, confirmed on his stream that Lol ranked used at least three different sorting algoritms for the ranked matchmaking:

1) normal, which prioritized players with no ELO vs rank irregularities to be matched with each other

2) "recovery", which prioritized players that once had a much higher ELO than his current rank to be matched with each other

3) smurfs, which prioritized players that obviously was playing on smurf accounts to be matched with each other

Just speculations but perhaps is Apex using something similar.  Perhaps are players that previously reached platinum matched together regardless of what rank they currently play in beween bronze and gold. This would validate the bronze-to-gold lobbies from a competitive fairness pov and also explain why bronze-gold lobbies are even sweatier than some platinum lobbies....

Guess this is easily examined by creating a brand-new account and purposely play badly, like just hipfire spray and go <1 KD.. If you play like this through the entire Rookie and bronze ranks and still get very bad opponent in Silver, than I think its safe to say that there in fact are several rank queues. Perhaps I will do this by playing with controller as a M+K player. I will legit be a <1 KD player then =)

@Midnight9746 

Well, it does make sense if we assume that all players who once reached like Platinum or higher, i.e players considered "high" elo, are matched vs each other in the same bronze-to-gold lobbies, regardless of what rank they currently are reset to.  This system would a) keep former or current high elo players out of "true" bronze-gold lobbies and b) make the game more grindable = better player retention, which I think is the main purpose of the soft resets for better or worse.

Such system would ofc be a bit unfair to hardstuck plats since they will be among the worst players in most their lobbies

If I was a diamond ranked player, I wouldn't be complaining, but I am only a plat player, so I'm complaining that I'm "hardstuck" gold with this guy.

@Midnight9746Yep, we mentioned this here many months ago that Preds, Masters and Diamonds should NEVER demote to Bronze 4. Who here disagree with this?

Players that DO NOT play demote every 6 weeks or 8 times a year for 6 tiers, wth does this make any sense? This has been going on from day 1 of rank I believe and it is the most stupid rank rule EVER and we keep asking for them to change that and they do the worst thing they can; nothing.

But still Respawn did nothing about it. Been asking myself if they care the least about our play experience and been playing other games in 2022 more than this one.

You would think if they cared just a little they would try and do something so we don't get stomped by higher skilled players in rank, but no they still approve Itztimmy doing a Bronze 4 to Master challenge with a rank smurf winning 90% of games and disrespecting ALL players.

@Palette24caratsWhat pros need:
Master 4 at 15k
Master 3 at 18k
Master 2 at 21k
Master 1 at 24k

What WE need: no more bronze to master challenge, no more higher skilled players in our games/rank, no more demote diamonds, masters and preds to bronze 4, 20 points per KP, less points for placement.

Simple.

But I expect them to do nothing for us anything for them.