[2020] Just wanna thank whoever the new Valorant competitive leader is.

<3 Thanks for playing our game, can't have a great PvP game without a great community. The competitive team saw your post, and we are glad you are enjoying all the work we are putting in. Hopefully we can keep making you proud in the future. We will be out there grinding with everyone, trying to get those ranks after those distribution changes >:)

edit: I also wanted to say, after thinking about my answer, that I joined a very talented team that has done amazing work. I've only been here a month, in all honesty I haven't even dipped my toe into Riot and working on Valorant. While I may be showing up on Reddit, explaining how ranked is working here or there, I'm lucky to be surrounded by the super talented team that poured tons of time and effort launching the game and making ranked awesome. Valorant is young, we will probably never be done changing and improving the competitive space. We are excited to be on this ride and we will be watching for feedback!

Glad you like the changes. EvrMoar recently joined VALORANT to help lead our Competitive design efforts, and we are super happy to have him on the team!

Since Act1 you all have given great feedback, and it's led us to target some larger rank changes and features which we've been working on in the background, and are excited to ship with the start of Episode 2 in January 2021. While we work on those we've tried to make some improvements along the way around allowed rank skill disparity, server select, rank distribution, and lots of matchmaking tweaks, and we appreciate your feedback and others (both positive and critical) on updates as it really helps inform where we focus our efforts.