Ranked PVP Changes - the elimination of non-Honor Ranked

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Sup, Legends!

As the title of this post indicates, we will be eliminating the non-Honor mode for Ranked PvP; making "Honor Ranked" the only Ranked PvP mode in the game.

This change will take effect at the start of next season!

The reasoning behind this change for this should be pretty obvious to those who regularly queue for Ranked. For those that haven't / don't play: there are simply too few Ranked participants to justify dividing the community among two different modes. It is our hope that by removing the non-Honor Ranked mode that we will see a greater number of participants for 'Honor' Ranked and that the queue times for 'Honor' Ranked matches will be affected positively.

We are also making changes to penalize players that abuse the systems we put in place to allow disconnected players to rejoin matches in progress. Apparently, legitimate internet service-based disconnects are rare to such an extent that providing a method to rejoin is simply unnecessary. So, in the future: leaving Ranked matches in progress will count as 2 points for your opponents.

Now obviously PVP-related changes tend to illicit widespread silence and contented shrugs... but I would encourage you to share your thoughts this time 'round if you have anything to say.
Don't be shy! And we thank you in advance ;-)