Because it’s a joke and means nothing.
If an opponent leaves at anytime before you return to lobby, you get no credit for winning
If the game puts you up against an AI while playing ranked duels because it’s busted, you get no credit and wasted time
Everybody below masters isn’t ranked correctly, basically the rank is just a guess estimate and places everybody somewhere in which they don’t belong. Diamonds can be **** and actually gold while golds can be decent and actually diamond.
The system for ranked is broken. And thats on top of the broken balance of the game. Goodluck winning against a Warden or Conq who turtles and spams.
Rant over
So the is a huge issue with top players just making surf accounts and winning all their games ez mode and getting GM. I watched setmyx get placed into gm rank 25 with 6000 points. This would take forever to reach from diamond or lower. The point loss ratio is way too hard to climb the ranks. the issue is if you lose to a player thats lower than you you will lose 50-60% and if you win you earn 5-15%. So your going well maybe win 3 matches then u face a player thats a counter to your class..probably a conc... and since they beat you and they are lesser rank than you you lose so much elo. it feels like to climb its a win 3 lose 1 to progress.
Now as far as placement goes, I feel they should take on the SC2 method of gaining rank and getting placed. There should be a cap of where you can be placed and i would say diamond 5. I think masters and GM should only be for those who fight their way into these ranks. Smurf accounts placing into gm is just ridiculous.