User blog comment:Busecatu/Why Ranked System is broken./@comment-1985493-20131009225115

I agree, apart from the placement matches, I think the ranked system is mostly fine, apart from the whole issue with challenger in that high level players can't really compete for prestige seeing as how they are all either cemented in Diamond 1 or high challenger; only the bottom 25 is up for grabs; but that's a whole other issue. I personally think I got lucky in my placement matches, I don't remember much about them cuz I played them randomly in place of normals and treated them the same way; but I managed to skip bronze entirely, which helped me get to gold sooo soo much easier.

Personally, I think the best way to deal with 10 matches being a dumb way of deciding your decision is to have the amount of matches you need be set to 40 (or so,) but after you complete a certain amount (let's say 10) you can see your "division" which is where you would be if you were done with your placements. This way, players get a more thorough placement opprotunity while at the same time not grinding away for nothing because they don't even get a divison.

On another note, I was watching a streamer who won all 10 placement games on his smurf and got placed straight into Gold 1, so yea, it is possible.