Talk:Elo rating system/@comment-98.240.208.23-20120205071050

Okay, ELO hell is a real thing. Granted I've still played less than thirty ranked games, so I haven't had a real chance to climb out statistically, but I still feel like every game is determined by random placement of idiots. I'm hovering around 1000 right now, and sometimes my team dominates, sometimes my team gets rocked. Few games are actually close. Games are constantly unbalanced. The truth is, this level of ELO is populated by a mixture of unskilled players and players who have been unlucky in their first couple matches. I'm not saying I'm a top player, but I'd like to be able to go into a ranked queue being confident that I can play a game with players who communicate, a game that wont have anyone going 0-8 by 20 minutes in, nobody who overextends with no map awareness, and nobody that constantly yells at their team. It's not the number I care about. It's being able to play a fun game where I feel my own performance affects the outcome. I don't feel that right now. I'm in ELO hell.