User blog comment:Lokiwg/My Ranked Horror Story/@comment-4593717-20131002175854/@comment-8267817-20131003123242

Tobar, while I agree with you in part, the whole message is not completely accurate, I have been studying game mechanics, practicing for ranked, reading over champion specifics and stats here on the wiki, and yet, applying all of my knowledge and skills at maipulating the champions I play makes no difference, motivation does not let you climb higher in ranked, it just keeps you from raging and telling Riot's ranking system to go screw itself.

Yes, if you are bad, you are bad, but sometimes half decent players get stuck in bronze not due to lack of drive, but lack of competent teams. One person cannot carry a game alone, that one person must have at least a little help, and he must allow his team to become a force in the game, otherwise it is one good player against 5 decent players, and if the 5 decent players don't make a ton of mistakes then they win, plain and simple.