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you can win 9/10 of your placement matches and be put at the very first rank. If its by design everyone starts at rank 1 tier 1 what the hell is the point of placement matches
Edit: So its intentional that kind of killed any drive I had to rank up. ranks only exist to trick us into grinding making us think we are getting better when in actuality I could be in the lowest skill bracket i hate hidden sbmm

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about 4 years ago - /u/EA_Charlemagne - Direct link

Hey! We found some players were in a state where they couldn’t properly get placed at all. We’re working on fixing this bug, but in the meantime we forced affected players into Maverick so that they can still climb ranks while we work. Sorry about this. We’ll provide updates on this when we can.