Why are brand new players put in gold games?

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@Cuthbert-11649

New players qualify for high ranks easily because competitive play is algorithmically handicapped in their favor. More information:

Plea for democracy and regulatory action Four years of debate and polling have proven with strong majority votes that players want transparent terms of use for Competitive Play, and non-discriminatory treatment from the matchmaking system. In three polls on the Battlenet forum, we have rejected the handicapping of ranked matches with votes of: 295 to 56, 320 to 42, and 403 to 50. On this forum, we have also voted to ban handicapping of ranked matches at 388 to 64 and 528 to 94. Objective I …

For how this is just a flawed opinion with no real evidence see here:

@Rezeak-2251

The intent of this post is to firstly point out the arguments presented are just pure opinion with no evidence.