Er, no?
I was going to post a topic on this but I got ambivilent because either it wouldn't get noticed, or I could post it here like on this page and watch it also get ignored and buried.
Since it's work to explain, and the reward is slim, I'm just going to sum it up:
Look at the way ranking is scored. You can climb through gold by winning and getting a human amount of kills, like 1 or 2. But once you hit plat, you need to get one or two kills and also get like top 6. Or basically top 2 if you want to really advance. So pretty much everyone in platinum skill is either actually Plat IV, or a Diamond working through the ranks.
And it only gets worse from there.
I'm never bothering myself to grind to Diamond. Respawn, I think, likes their ranking system this way, but it's massively flawed. I watch Diamond IV players showing up in Platinum all the time, throwing games because, seriously, who the F cares? You aren't getting past Diamond with -48 points per game unless you are winning or placing top IV with 3+ kills, and....that's against players at Diamond level. So good luck with that.
Point is, all climb ranking systems have a messed up sort of bell curve. Once you hit your level, you tend to sit there and go nowhere else. It's a sort of illusion that you can advance past a certain point. But Pretty much the ranks are actually:
Platinum: Platinum IV
Diamond: Plat III-I and Diamond IV
Masters: Diamond III-I and Masters IV
Apex: Just Apex. Because as far as I can tell they don't even sit in Masters III-I for long enough to matter.
Anyway, someone up in the nosebleed ranks can correct me if I'm wrong, but it's simply not true that we can all achieve Apex rank. Not even if you grind 8 hours a day for a lot of people. I mean is it possible? Sure. But you have to ask yourself is it worth it?
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