User blog comment:Leyrann/Placement Matches - The toxic that creates the Elo Hell feeling/@comment-164.47.100.124-20121127234746

I always wondered why playing Ranked was of such large consequence to people. What is the real gain here? As far as I can see everything is purely superificial based upon baseless assumptions and 'implications' wrought by the word "Ranked". Unless you are one of the top 32 teams (0.0001%), there is no observable incentive to play Ranked over say, Draft Normal. Well there is, we call that ego, but I generally assume people are smarter than that so I'll leave that as a non-possibility. As I was saying, there is no observable incentive, people may argue that playing Ranked on average gets them better teammates, but are incapable of drawing that conclusion as they do not have reliable data to prove it. Having more wins on average in Ranked than in Normals is not a logically sound way to prove this. Like most things.

Reason why I'm typing all this out is because I just simply don't understand the incredible amounts of superficial stress people put on a game mode. Furthered by logically inconsequential arguments to back it up. But like I said, if it's a simple matter of e-peen, go for it I guess. It is generally those kinds of people who are toxic.