Why is there no backfill system for competitive? When someone leaves, in case of a disconnect, put in a bot at the appropriate level to play with the team until they rejoin. After the timer for rejoining is over, let someone backfill.
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Have you seen how bad the AI of botd are in overwatch?
They’d feed your enemy and make you lose even harder
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Depends on the difficulty of bots, and even so a distracting bot is better than nothing.
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Even hard bots walk on point and feed
Backfill in competitive is a terrible idea.
Honestly better than empty spot. Not to mention what will one missing person will do to team morale.
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There absolutely should be backfill for Competitive, but it should be other players, not bots.
I just mean for the timer to give a legit dc time to reconnect. After that minute or 2, absolutely put a real person in. Just don’t take away someone’s chance to rejoin
I’d say do it like let’s say Paladins then, replace the player without saying they’ve left.
This way your team/the enemy won’t know it’s a bot until the end of the game.
If someone disconnects from a game it should backfill another player in. If the disconnected player rejoins they go on a reserves bench and then the rest of the original team can vote whether to allow them to rejoin or not.
Yeah in lower ranks nobody will notice change in game play anyway. 
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Eh. I feel that’s too unfair to the players that just crashed and are back in less than a minute.
So you would be willing to go in as backfill player? To the games where you could not affect the outcome of match for example 5 minutes? Nobody would like to backfill. Not people who care about wininng.
I wouldn’t mind being backfill personally, but only if someone got the 2 minute chance to reconnect first and maybe if there was no SR lost if the match was over in less than a minute.
I’d be more than willing to go in as a backfill player if it means I can save a team from staring down that dreaded 5v6 barrel.