@OldTreeCreeperYou missed the whole point. They've never forced long queue times to get proper MM, other than season 13 split 1. If they did you wouldn't have faced them last season. And MMR did not reset for all this season. If it did, how did someone like Sweet get to pred in 10 placement games and only 40 ranked games without doing any damage.
@hayhorif you start after placement matches with gold rank then you can get to pred with 12000 point ,1000 for each tier considering getting 250 points each match for placing 2nd or 3rd then you can get it with 48 matches but it took him 50 matches so give or take few points each match.
so it perfectly match what happened ,FYI in all the seasons not only s17 , if you were one of the first people who rank up to master then instead of master you will get predator rank .
later on when more players start getting to predator then the grind will start to keep the predator rank and this is where masters start to appear and grind to get predator position
@hayhor I said I suspected as much. And that was my experience.
The premades with past master and pred badges pervious match champions are all over the place in plat V now.
@hayhor was sweet in a premade or solo? For the placements, and did he play them as soon as the update went up? I think you will find that he was carried, with his team killing loads and getting wins. It's a bit disingenuous on his part to claim that ranked is broken when he was carried like that. It was contrived, and not really somthing an ordinary player could do solo.
How do the figures compare to the total number of players in ranked? Compared to previous seasons and %'s?
Again I think it's to be expected for now in the first season as we all jump the gun. Next season will be far more balanced with a seasons figures to go on.
My guess is sweet will not be able to do the same thing next season.
@hayhor not really, I didn't misread this article. Once word got round he was helped, so it was much more than the last game, essentially premades and carried...
https://esports.gg/news/apex-legends/sweetdreams-solo-queues-to-apex-predator-with-0-damage/
my take on the whole subject is, as long they didn't find a solution for predators and masters stacks playing against plats and diamonds ( and this seasons i encountered them in silver) then I'm happy about the new system.
at least people like me don't have to lose 50 RP every match because of obvious disadvantage.
i know that patch notes said that premade will not play against solos at least ,but until now i don't see that happening and it's worse than ever .
but since the lose in not significant and the chance to be positive is big then I'm ok with it.
i personally don't care what kind of system they implement , the only concern is that i don't want to play against the top 50 predators while having golds and plats in my team.
we either all play with and against similar ranks or give me current preds and masters in my team to carry me.
i think that is the only fair way to do it.
back then when these guys complained that they have to wait don't know how long for one match that wasn't our problem.
if they want predator rank then it should not be something easy and have their way only
now they say that this system is benefiting the noobs (like me) who are usually hard stuck gold-plat but they are forgetting that these hard stuck players are the reason they got to predator rank.
the broken system got them to predator not their skill (most of the time), when MM put one full stack in gold-plat lobby with no other stack on the same level to counter them then the result is clear.
because some people have life, don't cheat, don't stack and hold hands like a bunch of school kids afraid to get separated and melted with no one there to help them and play every match like it's an ALGS.
the funny thing is they still get melted by golds some times ,same what I witnessed yesterday lol
@hayhor I think you will find that the sweet army was mobilised by the professional back support team. How many followers would want to play in his lobbies or even get to play with him. Imo It was an interesting and very successful advertising exercise.
The fact that everyone was reset and there was a new points system put in place, was fully exploited for that advertising purpose, proves nothing about the new system imo.
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