


This means players will go up in rank, if they are below Ascendant.MMR targets determine your RR gains and help push your rank to match your MMR. These are the cut-offs that say “You should be X MMR to reach this rank”.Moved the ranked target for Immortal 1/2/3 and Radiant up. Moved the rank MMR targets that determine rank down, due to the addition of the new Ascendant rank, for all ranks below Ascendant.So by adding a new rank we can better distribute you across ranks, keep the prestige of high ranks, while helping better define the skill level of each rank. When we were looking at rank distribution, we realized that if we were to move some of you up and out of those lower ranks, it would overpopulate Platinum and Diamond.

We believe our lower ranks have a few too many of you, especially Bronze and Silver.Added an additional rank above Diamond, below Immortal, called “Ascendant.”.There are reasons! You can read more about our decision in our map pool update article.We are temporarily removing Split from the map pool in Unrated and Competitive queues.Pearl-only queue will be available for 2 weeks, then after that Pearl will enter Competitive.This queue is a standard, Unrated mode that will give players a chance to practice the new map before they see it in Competitive play.
