From yesterdays VALORANT Competitive Team, AMA:

With the new Rank Rating system we're going to be issuing AFK Rank Rating penalties at the end of a match to dissuade folks from bailing in the middle of a game.We've also modified our system since launch so that players who do stick around and play out matches will be affected less by a match outcome when a player was AFK.
edit* We'll also be issuing penalties for character select dodging :)

This is the line that worries me a lot. Admittedly, I am a player that dodges games quite a bit (EU player). Here's how it goes:

1. Your random teammates instalocked 4 duelists? Surely this is gonna be a very fun and competitive game and not complete waste of my time and MMR... :) DODGE
2. Is someone extremely toxic in the character select already? Surely they are gonna be nice and polite once the game starts. Right? DODGE
3. You notice 2-4 people don't have mics. Since I am an EU player that mostly plays Frankfurt servers, there's a pretty high chance those players are from Russia. Or toxic people that got chat banned and are likely to throw matches. Or simply don't have mics and won't be able to communicate with the rest of the team. In a competitive mode. DODGE

So right now you might be thinking: "this guy is making stuff up". NOPE. I have experienced all of this, on a consistent basis over 300+ competitive matches, played during Episode 1. There is a pattern in this and it WILL affect your rank and enjoyment of the game.

I have been a hardstuck gold 3 player for the first two acts and the first half of act 3. Started dodging matches, and guess what? Easy plat 1. I was still losing games in between, sure. But the quality of the matches was miles better when "selecting" the ones I wanna play (aka dodging). I will take the L no problem, if there is at least minimum teamwork and some comms. But having to play a ranked game without a single word being spoken and not a single callout being heard (or ignored) is just discouraging.

Rito needs to understand that dodging isn't always a result of "bRuH, yOU tOoK mY MAiN" or "IcEBoX bAd mAP". And that at least two of my reasons for dodging could be fixed by:

1. Region locking Russia
2. Disabling competitive mode if you are chat banned. (Right now there is no real penalty for being toxic, other than not being able to communicate with the team for a few days. Which still hurts the teammates.)

These two features have been suggested so many times by many players, but we are yet to get an answer that isn't "we know this is a problem and we are sorry about it". The lack of information on why people that are chat banned (or unable to communicate due legal reasons) are still able to join ranked matches is worrying.

Thanks for reading this wall of text!

PS: As for the mods of this subreddit - I edited a few words out and changed some sentences so it's better worded now. In case you decide to not approve this post again, at least notify me, what part of the post is not in line with the subreddit rules (I checked them all and it doesn't seem to break any).