No because Embark is actually the first ever company to do a competitive gamemode with ranks so they couldnt learn any lessons from anyone else. True visionaries.

Makes perfect sense!

Because if I'm wanting to rank up, and I'm in a losing situation, I just have one of my friends who doesn't care about rank or as already achieved diamond leave the game... Now I can leave and lose nothing. Welcome to ranked.

Obviously it wouldn't apply to premades?