User blog comment:Busecatu/Why Ranked System is broken./@comment-24030644-20131009135244

I agree with you mostly. Let me explain:

1. IT has always been like that.

Before you were placed in ELO base - you had to play X time. Why? Because if u lose ur first game, u have 0 win% and if you win, it's the opposite.

So - it's normal to require to play x games because you need to have sth to take the average ratio.

2. Also, I personally believe that it is very hard to advance and impossible do be demoted to other league, like from silver to gold and bronze.

With ELO you also had the so called, maybe a myth and maybe a real beast, ELO HELL. Here some say bronze is such a place, I don't know, I've never been Bronze.

But there is way too many trolls, stupid or toxic, impolite, sometimes afk people in this game. So winning 2/3 games in row is VERY luck dependant.