Competitive Season 3 Rant

I am so glad that I have a free topic this week and I decided that I will be talking about season 3 of Competitive Overwatch. I have written about this game in the past, but today I am going to have to say some good and not so good things about it, so let’s get into it.

This season just started on Wednesday before this post, but my team and I didn’t place until Sunday because we had school during the week. We placed in silver tier. This I one of the lower tiers and we were placed in gold last season which is higher, but we won more placement games than the season before. It just doesn’t make any sense. Blizzard, Overwatch developers, have said this is to spread out people among the ranks. Why couldn’t they just add another tier for people. It is just so frustrating.

On the good side of things, after you place you can keep playing and win or lose games. This season it is easier to climb out of your tier because win count more than losses. In the last season, loses and wins were counted equally, so if you won 1 and lost 1 then you were back at you same rank give or take a few points. This season if you do the same thing then you will have a net gain in your rank. I personally like this because it gives more room for error and gives players more incentive to keep playing.

The one thig learned about this season is that I think it will be better for the Overwatch community as a whole when it is all said and done. Anything that makes the community grow I will support, so I must support it no matter how much I dislike it now.