User blog comment:Lokiwg/My Ranked Horror Story/@comment-3974211-20131003144404

I was up for promotion to Platinum 5. My current score was 2W-2L-?. In my last game, we had an afk. We were winning the entire game until were lacked the presence to fight anymore. Incidentally--I hope--that loss was my first game after turning "veteran".

I then went on a losing spree down to Gold 2 - each game was played with awful team members (I'd had amazing teams from Bronze 2 up to Gold 1, even when I lost they were a pleasure to play with). I've convinced myself it's because of the "veteran" tag and because Riot said "we try to match skill AND the number of games played" - essentially I'm now being queued with the people who've been in Gold all season and have either given up or are where they deserve to be there.

I'm been in and out of Gold 1/Gold 2 for the last 2 weeks. I would be in Platinum but I'm stuck in Gold because of bad luck in the only game that mattered.