User blog comment:Manslay1er/My first ranked match/@comment-5266525-20150126020327

"After the match ended I came to realize the huge gap of skill between players from normal and ranked games."

Not true at all. You simply had the default MMR for Ranked (which is presumably much higher than your true MMR) and got placed against people way above your level. Otherwise the same people who play ranked are the same people who play normals.

What IS different is the attitude, though. Obviously ranked has much higher stakes every game so while you can get games that are fairly relaxed it's rare in a queue where every loss gives a player a tangible loss.