Reminiscence on League of Legends.

Future Jabari here.  It’s funny, a couple of weeks or so after this podcast was recorded, I started playing League again.  By the new year or so, I got into plat.  Made it to plat 2.  But all it takes is one loss to ruin a streak.  Then boom, even though I am consistently getting A+ or S as a ranking each game, it doesn’t matter.  Teammates are bad since I’m not in the losers queue.   That’s why Elo is so stupid.  I get punished by RNG.  Basically, the best way to rank up is to wait till you get a winners streak, then don’t stop playing.  Literally just keep playing all day, because at some point, the streak ends, and boom, you are in the losers queue.  Like from my personal experience, I've seen that once you have a winners streak and are in the winners queue, if you stop, the next time you play, you will be at risk of the losers queue.  It’s like the Elo boost runs out after a certain amount of time you aren’t playing.  It’s quite stupid.  Sadly, the developers at Riot and, to be honest, most competitive ranked games, don’t really understand that a ranking system needs to both incorporate how the team did AND how YOU did. Both at the same time.  You only do the "the whole team is the rank" if it’s a pre-made team.  Seems logical to me, but alas, most developers are just finishing their Jira task, and that’s it.  They don’t have the passion or care to do anything beyond that.  They just want the salary and then go home.  Guess it makes sense, but it’s still annoying.