User blog comment:Steelside/Controlling My Rage/@comment-64.88.89.20-20120601151351/@comment-3156280-20120601152907

I played ranked near religiously on my old account. Now that I have not been level 30 I take pride in maintaining a positive winrate rather than a high Elo.

It's all I have for competition right now, normals, since I cannot participate in ranked until I reach 30 again, which won't be long.

I felt the same way as you when I could play ranked, but take that away and normals become ranked. Before season 1 when ranked games were added, normals were treated as the "serious" mode where as custom games (called "practice" games during this time) were for screwing around and testing things out. It's the same idea.