Promo-Time

Yes it´s promo time today. I don´t tell you to which divison ;)

A few words on my opinion about hidden ELO and divisons. When I started to play ranked there were already the new divisions in place, so I can´t speak about how it was before. But I can understand that Riot took this step. Too many people are just looking on a single performance score and have serious problems with loosing ELO points and descending in the ladder.

But, somehow, the divisions did not really solve this problem fully:

• You still get frustrated if you fall through a whole division or 2 in 1 or 2 days
• At least in the lower tiers you get remarkably many points for a win, and also you loose a high amount of points for a loss. Why it is like that?
• The promotion to a new division can be awfully hard, and, if lost, you need again at least 5 games or so won in a row to finally climb

Did I miss a point here? Not sure...
So I personally got really frustrated many times now. And I sometimes think that maybe a normal ELO ladder would be nice. I would like to see some comments here about how it was before S3 and what is your personal experience with the old ELO system vs. the hidden ELO now.

Otherwise cross your fingers for me, I need a win now ;)

Florian