source? I highly doubt this. Ranked exists so people get even matchups to improve enjoyment of the game
I agree with this
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I may have misspoken, Iâm pretty bad at English. I am sorry for that. What I mean is that the fundamental usefulness of ranked games is to confront the best in order, ultimately, to participate in tournaments. Otherwise, you might as well do FFA, unranked games, campaign, etc. 
Itâs just âlogicâ since playing in ranked brings an elo which has only one use: to allow you to access tournaments benefiting from cash price Of course, some players do not play in this perspective but they would have the same pleasure in unclassified, since the âeloâ does not bring them anything in the âfinalâ.
This is flat false. The mass majority of people who play ranked have zero aspirations to tournament play
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Agree, ranked + elo system is there to make fair/even/interesting matchups.
Thatâs the main reason for the ranking.
Itâs also understandable in this context why many pros donât have too high emphasis on playing ranked games cause going up the scale at some point doesnât help you in finding good matches anymor, usually only increases your waiting time and gives matches with always the same people.
The imortant thing of playing ranked is not to get a higher rank, but instead being actually matches with people of the same strength.
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Yeah the ranked ladderâs purpose is literally just to ensure you get matched with equally skilled players
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Thatâs what unranked is for. Same as the weird players in the Voobly noob lobby who always wanted to play crazy settings with 500 pop, fast speed, high resources, all techs etc. You canât expect the majority of the player base who have spent time learning how to play the game properly with proper build orders etc. are gonna want to play your crazy custom map on the ranked ladder. The best you can hope for is MegaRandom. Otherwise youâll just have to play unranked.
The game should be somewhat democratic. The majority likes at least one of those 4x most popular maps Arabia, Arena, Black Forest, Nomad. Itâs only a minority who wants the funky maps. This is more evidence that we need infinite map bans. Then crazy map players can ban all the common maps they hate and everyone else can ban the crazy maps.
I believe that being able to choose your position is your civilization allows you to practice and experiment with strategies for tournaments. The classified, as well as the Elo, are only used to qualify for tournaments and practice strategies for tournaments. Unless you contemplate your Elo at night before sleeping, of course, everyone has their own ####### The random full was there to practice adaptation, which is of course doable at a certain level of play, but just knowing how to adapt wonât make you excel at specific game levels. Otherwise, athletes would not train on specific terrains and exercises. 
No, it wasnât better before, it was different and just as limiting.
You know, you get 6 other maps but those three along with Nomad are the four most played maps in every rotation. The goal is to have âmoreâ active players. Removing some of these maps from the ranked map pool will result in fewer number of players and much fewer number of games. So those maps canât be removed.
And I can understand the frustration with Arabia where its nearly impossible to break the Scout-archer into Knight -crossbow meta but Arena offers plenty of gameplay variety. Its not fast imperial at all. You can do the feudal tower rush, forward castle drop gunpowder, pocket Cuman player capped ram lancer push, monk siege play, goth or slav long swords siege tower.
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