User blog comment:Nhan-Fiction/A Casual Attitude Waters Down Ranked Play/@comment-216.36.26.248-20130309101058

I'd like to move it up a notch. If you want to be super serious, get yourself four friends and do teams. Teamwork and coordination are what make competitive play in this game interesting. Until then, do everyone, including yourself, a favor and stop pretending solo/duo queue ranked is anything more than draft mode with special portrait borders. Individual rating doesn't count for anything in solo/duo queue anyway. I've walked over gold and plat players like they were having trouble finding their hotkeys and I don't even have a border on my portrait (anecdotal evidence being what it is).

tl;dr: Solo/duo queue rating doesn't really mean anything. Make/join a team if you want to be serious.