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Event accounts are seeded at a higher than usual MMR, but they do a lot less to disrupt the MMR balance because:

• They're only active for a smaller period of time
• They're seeded much closer to a reasonable approximation of their skill, since we know the pro player's performance already
• The number of pro players coming in is fairly small.

These accounts probably cause a slight overall deflation (as we don't seed them as high as some of these players are on their home server, so they tend to gain MMR), but it's considerably less than if we let those players enter the system via smurf accounts without higher seeding.

It's not a bad idea, but draft games aren't played with the same competitive intent as ranked games, so we can't guarantee that how you do in those 10 games is representative of how you'd do in Ranked. I wouldn't trust Normal data as the only way of seeding someone, but it could be part of the solution along with other info.

Hey there, I'm the game designer working on this space right now, and this explanation is pretty accurate! There's a couple other issues with entering people in away from the middle:

- If your median starts at value A, and you start to add new players in at value B, where B

- Not every new player is below average. Some are well above average, some are well below, but we're still operating with limited information in all those cases. Starting people too low means that above average new players create disruptions in the system for a longer period of time (because we're matching them and updating MMRs based on their current position, which is very different from the "true" position where they will settle).

This isn't to say we're happy with the new player experience to ranked right now - the way we do things now works out over time, but doesn't feel good for everyone. Our goal is to hopefully keep the individual matches feeling fair for both the new player ...

Basically, we tried out a couple tests without the Honor restriction, and found that removing the restriction allowed a lot more Honor 2+ players to actually play. Since forming a team can be difficult, having one friend below the Honor line was keeping multiple high Honor players out. We still want Honor to be meaningful, but this restriction was doing more to hinder people who should be qualified than discourage people from losing Honor.

We're looking into it, thanks for the report!

That should be the case, yes

We will absolutely get the reward to people retroactively - hopefully very shortly after the reward is available to everyone else. I'd really rather not make people wait for being extra Honorable.

It actually is my department, so sorry for not giving more transparency earlier :D We were not talking much about it while we looked into the solution (since we didn't have much to say), but now that we have a plan it's easier to discuss!

Thanks for bringing this up! We did have a bug that kept the Stats page from updating - it wasn't throwing errors in the typical way, so it took us longer to notice than we'd usually like.

The bug is fixed, but backfilling the stats we missed will take a little time. We're going to start the process soon, but it will take some time until we get everything in there.

We'll be tracking how successful premades are, and if premades are a substantial advantage, we can adapt premade restrictions. We're going to learn a lot in the Beta Season of Ranked, and we'll make changes based on what we learn.

Sorry about that - Gold cannot queue with Diamond. We'll be correcting that graphic soon!

Precisely - there's a lot of questions to answer before it's ready for TFT.

We don't currently have a plan in place for getting Honor into TFT, but I think it makes sense to not limit Honor to SR-only. We just have to figure out a couple changes before it's ready to carry over.

We'll have more firm details Soon, but we are working on a way to get those skins out to Honor 5 players with less RNG. The current design would let you choose between the skins or chromas - so in your case, since you already have Medieval Twitch, you could get either the Twitch chroma or Grey Warwick.

Hey, thanks for bringing this up! We're still getting the chromas ready to get out to you, and unfortunately, we didn't finish this up before some players are able to hit Honor 5. The chromas will be available in a few patches, and anyone who hit Honor 5 before they are released will be granted the reward retroactively. Sorry for the confusion, but we'll get you some shiny chromas before the end of the season.

I think there's a more detailed explanation coming out soon (once we have a final date for when the chromas are available), but I'm happy to answer any other questions!

I definitely hear you on the lack of Honor progress. I don't think we have immediate plans to bring Honor into TFT, but that could change in the future.

It's definitely a possibility, especially if we want to give out XP through TFT.

We're going to be addressing this in more depth in a dev post soon, but the TL;DR: we're not going to give BE/XP through TFT at launch, but we may reconsider once we know more about how TFT looks in the real world.

- At launch, we don't want to include BE/XP as part of TFT because there's a lot we don't know yet about how typical games of TFT will go once the meta is settled. Stuff like how long a game lasts, how long it takes to get to your next game, and how different those numbers are for 1st vs. 8th place are all things we're tracking. We don't want to make assumptions and end up giving out way too much BE/XP, potentially unbalancing those systems.

- With new accounts coming in specifically to play TFT, giving them XP could allow them to reach level 30 without ever playing Summoner's Rift. Playing TFT isn't the best preparation for Ranked, so we'd like those accounts to play some Summoner's Rift games before entering Ranked. There are definitely other solutions ...

There's a lot we loved about the larger brackets, and we're working on ways to bring more of what we liked about them back to Clash. We definitely haven't given up on them, they're just not where we're going for the start of Clash :)

It's ranked only