this may have changed since a month ago when i posted about it. however, i doubt it. its one of the reasons i think things are actually bad in draft games though.
when they ‘merged’ the ranks they basically did almost nothing. you see TL had a big issue. which was that ppl could use any hero at any level and you could be a total noob account as well. this is what made it so painful to play TL.
the current ranked rules have it, as i recall, being that you only have to get to a minimum of account level 80. nothing more.
however, the rules need to be account level 80 + only able to pick heroes level 5 or higher. this was a critical rule that was enabled in HL that didnt get implemented.