Ruminating

@reconzero
1. Even before the ring changes, you're not going to know where the circle ends when you drop out of the ship. You could be on the opposite side of the circle.
2. Even if you landed somewhere with no other team, you might still not get what you want. One time, I've looted 2 buildings and 6 bins by myself, and came out with a p2020 and a 30-30.
3. You can probably avoid it more so in pubs, but in ranked or competitive, you might not be able to. In pubs, a majority of the people land at popular POI's. In ranked or competitive, people land everywhere.
4. Lots of things they can do. They can go ahead of you and gate keep you, they can push you, you can get sniped by them...there's a lot of things they can do to affect your game.

I honestly think you should play ranked.  Might change your perspective on the game. 

@reconzeromaybe our opinions differ so much because you don't play ranked. But man, you have to think...if you want real competition, teamplay and strategy, then you should play ranked. Most people in pubs don't care about anything besides getting kills.

"And I despise any form of the game where people are encouraged to play for anything other than a win."  You shoot for a win, and maybe you won't get it, but you place 2nd or 3rd and get a good amount of RP.  Also, silver and gold tiers are like pubs. If you're a decent player, you should be able to get out of silver fairly quickly.  I honestly think silver and gold lobbies are more fun than pubs. They feel more like real games because people actually care about winning.

I don't disagree, but it was not what I was trying to say. People can play however they want.

I'm saying there will be times where you will die to someone who can't shoot his way out of a paper bag and there will be times you take a win you didn't work for at all. It will happen to all of us, it's the nature of how BR works - it leans more towards fun and less towards true competition in many ways.