Ok, wrong on one thing. You've got the odds evening out thing wrong. What happens to the majority of players in actuality is their ranks wind up getting further and further down. Remember, your teammates are usually of similar ranks. All it takes is one bad game and your rank lowers. As your rank lowers, you wind up getting placed with players who have low ranks BECAUSE of the frequency of their leaving the matches. So what happens to most players who don't have the luck to start off with...

Sorry, it looks like you need to polish up on your deductive reasoning. Like I said earlier, too much of your rank is dependent on whether or not someone leaves the match. We all start at the lowest rank, and if you were LUCKY enough to go against a higher ranked team with a good team of your own who didn't abandon you, then fine. Your point that you can rank up in leaps and bounds stands. However, your last statement is wrong. The matchup comes down ENTIRELY to luck. I've gotten up to...

Sadly, there is no way out of it. One can argue "It's about teamwork," but that's undeniably crap. In ranked, unless you have a party, then you're thrown together with complete strangers whose play styles, personalities, preferences, and performance levels you have to discover throughout the game. Plus, as it's a small-scale 3v3, if so much as a single player isn't up to par, it's near impossible to pick up the slack and the entire team is guaranteed to suffer. Is it really fair...