User blog comment:Usiar/Actual Gameplay Requirements for Ranked?/@comment-5001455-20130119063556/@comment-5791947-20130119071439

You are not supposed to play casually in ranked unless you're like, the top 1% of everyone in the community (diamond ranked) because you're amazingly skilled, and because you'll always see the same faces over and over that they'll be your well-known friends by then.

If you're not taking ranked games seriously. Don't play ranked. Get out and play your normals.