Ladder System
What ladder system?
Matches have never been close. The vast majority of matches are and always have been a blowout. That’s why you see all these threads about how to balance population and match-ups and scoring changes and merging servers and etc.
Last season was just a jumbled mess that actually saw many matchups never happen. (JQ got T2 matches twice, BG once, SoR never).
Not that the current mess is any better.
The system before the random matchups people kittened about because it was the same opponents week after week.
Technically these were the most balanced matches for a server because of how the scoring system works. PPT rewards coverage over skill due to times where score is calculated where players are not involved. Because of that the servers eventually became matched with similar strength servers. This means the same opponents week after week but it also means a balanced match-up where any server had the potential to win the match.
Players don’t know what they want. You may think you want tea when you’ve been drinking water all the time but you may discover the tea sucks and you want water back.
Little red Lioka