What's the point of Split Ranked?

@bosourd  I'm in the same boat as you bud, i get the concept i just don't grasp the reasoning behind it. Perhaps its more for the preds benefit?

@MandatoryIDtagApex Predator is just another name for Pros now. Before you and a couple of friends had at least a CHANCE to be apex predator, now you need to break up with your girlfriend, stop eating, sleeping, going to work and live, breathe, and eat this game in order to have that chance to get to apex predator. Sadly the average Joe isn’t gonna be able to make it there. And I consider myself Above average but even I won’t be able to.

Reasons:

1. Community is basically begging for King Canyon.

2.  If they give you two maps and let you to choose between them then it's become harder to find players in match making size the pool reduce by half.

3. Some players just stick with one map and you can't measure their level credibility if they only master 1 map and barely touch other map.

4. Once people reached their rank, they never touch rank anymore. Soft reset force them to keep grinding.

5. For predator, it's become FULL-TIME JOB to keep above 500.

As stated in the EA blog post on the ranked changes, the changes to ranked and the addition of a mid season split with this update was to maintain engagement with the ranked gamemode. In prior seasons, players would grind to their target rank, and then stop playing ranked mode once they achieved it.  By keeping the same rough length ofbth e series, but dividing into two splits punctuated by soft rank resets, they hope to keep the ranked mode active throughout the entirety of the season. 

@bosourd it's quite simply just a marketing ploy to make sure people play the game for longer. Obviously with the amount of issues the game has, especially ones that haven't been fixed for 4 seasons now, they're trying alternate ways to keep people playing rather than improve the overall quality of game.

https://www.ea.com/games/apex-legends/news/ranked-series-3-details

"Moving to Splits per season, ~6 weeks of ranked play before a reset" - Rewards are based off of the highest tier, but they've "incentivized" playing both tiers because supposedly you get a reward for reaching the same rank for each split. 

"Adding Master Tier, Apex Predator becomes top 500 players by platform." Same ploy to keep people playing for longer, especially big name streamers, if you have to constantly maintain your rank, you're constantly playing.

"Soft reset and scoring are the same, but soft reset is every split." Once again, it's incentivized to play each split for the "best" rewards.