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The Overwatch Ranking System was affected by the recent changes made to how Skill Ratings work in Overwatch, below is some details on what Blizzard changed this month:
After giving the Skill Rating system a major overhaul in Season 2, Blizzard noticed both the Gold and Platinum tiers were significantly overpopulated.
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There has also been a lot of talk of how much advantage there is in a team who use team chat to coordinate in matches.
Blizzard recently spoke on the subject, telling fans that they are looking to encourage fans to join team chats from Party Chats, but were not going to force people to do so.
“We have a button that is very similar to the “stay as group button” we recently added that will strongly encourage members when they join a team and there are people in team chat, to join
the team voice chat," Blizzard's Jeff Kaplan confirmed.
“So you don’t always need to type in team chat at the beginning of every competitive match.”
While this doesn’t sound like a huge game-changer, making it easier for people to join into team voice chat could still help to boost competitive matches in the future.
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