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Opinions on skipping divisions

Creator: Le Pro of d00m October 13, 2013 10:03pm
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So in ranked, if you have a high mmr for your division, ex: 1600 mmr in gold 5, than you have the oppurtunit y to skip the next division once you win your promos. This happened to me today, and it gave me a legit shot at plat, but at the same time i feel some players that deserve it dont get it, and as a result theres some mash up in skill levels, so, what are your opinions on skipping divisions? should it be in the game or not?
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It should be in the game. It would've been kind of frustrating to climb, because I dropped from Gold to Silver (when we got to season 3).

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Well if a player deserves it, he gets it.

For example my Bronze smurf is almost silver 1, and since I played from Bronze 5 to Bronze 1 (fixing MMR gg) I managed to skip divisions in Silver.

And some people might be good, but their MMR is just not high enough, while they do not need a high amount of wins until their promotion so there is no time to get an overly high mmr
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It should never be done because some player deserves it, if he "deserves" it he can also play through, not to mention that the system is way below perfect in terms of decision making.


But the skipping is simply a needed factor, precisely because it's imperfect.

Imagine:

You didn't play ranked in S2 and now you've done fairly well on your placement machtes in S3, but can't be placed high enough since you didn't have a good (any) qualification from last season, but you'll start with a high MMR.

And now you play in Silver tier with a Gold tier MMR, meaning that the system rates you way higher than the average Joe you're playing against, meaning that you'll gain less points by winning/lose more points by losing than somebody who has Silver tier MMR.

Therefore you skip divisions in order to catch up with your actual MMR not to get frustrated normally playing your way to it.
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It's fine as it is.

If you win a lot and are way over your current tier, then why not speed the process
by skipping a tier that you would more likely pass anyways.

If you get promoted, but can't deal with it, you will simply just fall to the earlier tier.

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