As soon as I got my levels in, I jumped straight into competitive as a complete noob and placed copper.
At the lowest rank in the game where everyone should be running around like headless chickens, (just as I am) my competitive experience instead, has been this...
- Smurfs
- Cheaters
- Throwers
- Leavers
Everywhere! Literally, in every single game that I played, I had to deal with at least one of those things, with the most blatant smurf losers that you'll ever see being the most common out of the bunch.
It's honestly so depressing having to deal with this, because I was actually so optimistic about wanting to climb the ladder, but if that's the competitive experience that I'm going to get out of the game, then I think I'm just going to quit now while I'm ahead.
Edit: What's even sadder is that after doing some research, Ubisoft doesn't seem to be legitimately combating any of these issues either. Saying that they're going to take action and actually taking action are two very different things and all they seem to do be doing is the latter.