[2020] Quitters ruin ranked

The team is currently working on a fix for cases where you enter a Ranked match with less than 10 players in the lobby. As for players that leave in the middle of the game, there are abandonment penalties in place. We mentioned in the Void Edge notes that we will be reactivating the escalating abandon penalties for Ranked and Unranked after we have seen improvements in connection and server stability. This should hopefully help lessen the frequency of leavers.
If you are able to get a screenshot or clip of someone leaving mid-match who you think is throwing, be sure to send a report. You can also find Recently Played With Players under the Add Friends section, and report the usernames through the support portal.

Originally Posted by GRAW2ROBZ
Ranked and casual modes people constantly leaving. Usually right after the voting.

Depending on how much you play, how often do you experience leavers in your games?

Originally Posted by Cavendar.WT
Honestly with the ****ty matchmaking, I leave a lot in Casual. When it's smurfs, Champions and Plats against silvers and gold, it's ********, but UBI let's it happen. Ran into a Copper 3 with a 2.3 K'D in ranked playing Casual. Once I ran into a 45 Champion and he aced 1st round. Why stay in those games?

In ranked, I don't quit because it's "usually" closer games and not as broken. I have been on losing end of a LOT of ranked games, though. A few 3v5 the whole game.

Uneven Ranked matches are definitely something the team is working on a fix for. As for Casual, the matchmaking has been something we've made an effort to bring up to the team. We know there are players in the community who don't like being matched up with a high level player.

Originally Posted by Dan6992
My idea has always been... if someone leaves a ranked match make all other game variations unavailable until that match is over. Make it so the only way you can keep playing is to finish the ranked match.

Right now you can quit a ranked match and go play casual right away without penalty. Even when the penalty does finally kick in you can continue your casual match without a hiccup. If they made it so the only way to keep playing was yo finish your ranked match then less people would rage quit.

This is an idea I've seen players mull over the past few weeks. There definitely has been a desire for harsher penalties for players who abandon Ranked games continually. This might be worth bringing up to the team, so I'll make a note of this thread. Thank you for your contribution!

Originally Posted by Cavendar.WT
Speaking of this, up 3-1, lost a guy, lost 5-3. Thanks again for your service UBI. Lip service, that is.

That had to be frustrating. The team 100% looking at ways to fix this issue. Having an uneven team in a Ranked game isn't fair.

Originally Posted by RetiredExWolf
This is only one issue though, what about those that throw to just derank?

Deranking is a bannable offense and falls under the "Griefing" category. If someone is purposely sabotaging a game so they can drop a rank or two, definitely report them under the reason I mentioned.