Well it wasn’t about popularity, there was a problem with it on there new Ranking system, hence it will be back down the road
And tbf unless they do a limited life feature like Escalation(believe me it burns me to compare to such trash) it’s really not competive play unless it’s stack vs stack.
But they done said the actual main reason it was removed was trying to figure out how to do the new ranking system fairly. Not direct quote, but it was along those lines. Thus done said it would be back after some adjustments are made.
PS that limited life feature is still a fine line to walk, cause that then encourages camping. So either you have 1 guy burning all your lives, or everybody camps lol so that feature wouldn’t solve anything either.
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Well if your only playing one above and one below your rank now once you get into the golds and onyx levels surely nobody is going to be feeding the other team kills? At the end of the day though someone is going negative because that’s how one side wins. Some people will always camp, you just need to use smokes and flash grenades and push, that’s what they’re there for.
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Fair enough on the rank point. Long as that actually holds up as the truth, I gotta give it time to trust them and their matchmaking on that point lol but if it holds true then yes it’s a valid argument.
The camping thing, smoke/flash doesn’t work when they are camping a corner you don’t realize lol it will next life if they continue to camp there now that you know, but ya lol
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Oh wow, you remember this?
Duddeeee the memories 
You know I wasn’t budging and giving up ANY space or room.
I was always so determined !!
This has already made my day remembering how patient I was & how bored I was in this mode.
Like, I’m playing to win. I can wait alllll day 
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Loooooool yeah. I remember me, you, Silent, and dodson running TDM and just sitting there talking in global while we waited for the timer to run out. We kept matching against Fame Brutalz (dude lost his touch in Gears 5 imo).
Good times
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I see this sentiment rather frequently, but it makes absolutely zero sense to me. Why is your opinion on TDM relevant? Ranked TDM had the player base to support it as a Ranked Mode. Just because it is not your “cup of tea” doesn’t have anything to do with whether or not it “belongs” in Ranked.
I think KOTH is a ring-chasing camp fest. But if it has the player base to support it being on Ranked, then so be it. I just don’t want to play it, but I’m certainly not going to go around telling people that their preferred mode is somehow “less deserving” of being a Ranked mode.
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Someone who hates TDM… their opinion is irrelevant
Someone who played TDM right behind Guardian, now 3rd behind Gridiron… just like it was 3rd behind Dodgeball on 4…
Pay the f*ck attention… I already said I liked playing it.
I just know how to have an unbiased opinion on things… my mistake
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Who are you even replying to bro? Where the f*ck did I say you hated TDM?
And your opinion isn’t even remotely unbiased, it is based entirely on your subjective feelings about TDM not “deserving” to be a Ranked mode.
Ranked TDM had the player base to support it, TC themselves said it was one of the more popular modes. If that isn’t an un-biased metric I don’t know what is. If you are going to ignore player count, then what metrics are you using to determine in an unbiased way which modes are “deserving” of Ranked? I’d be curious to know.
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Saying it’s “not my cup of tea” is precisely saying I don’t like it 
Kids these days, don’t even understand their own sayings.
My opinion is completely unbiased… just like I hate KOTH with a passion, only mode I hate more is Escalation. But I understand KOTH is the most popular mode… I understand all the variables it takes to use actual teamwork to succeed… which is why I hate it, because I’m solo.
Furthermore, yet again, IT HAD NOTHING to do with popularity… it got removed because they had to figure out how to work it into the new ranking system (which says a lot too, but I won’t even touch that). You guys are spazzing out for nothing, they already said it’s going back to Ranked once they work that out.
At least you KNOW your cliche non unique, play it just to get some kills casual friendly, mode IS going back to Ranked.
Replying to you specifically as I can’t reply to both people with how this form works, but it applies to @DrAgonReBoRn063 too.
Feel free to disagree with each other, but please both be respectful.
Thank you 
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The saying “Not you cup of tea” expresses a preference for a different flavor, not a loathing of the flavor in question.
More to the point, you literally named zero metrics that you could use to back up your SUBJECTIVE OPINION on whether or not TDM “deserves” to be a Ranked mode. Your opinion does not mean anything in regard to whether or not the mode is “competitive” (it is), or if it “deserves” to be in Ranked (it does).
Furthermore, yet again, IT HAD NOTHING to do with popularity… it got removed because they had to figure out how to work it into the new ranking system (which says a lot too, but I won’t even touch that).
And furthermore, again I NEVER SAID it was removed due to low popularity, I said that the popularity of a game mode is a good OBJECTIVE indicator of whether or not a game type “deserves” to be in Ranked.
I will furthermore ask you again; What metrics are you using to determine in a non-opinionated and OBJECTIVE way which modes are “deserving” to be included in Ranked?
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Yesssss!!
I remember one on that map, omg, with the trishot and church fml I just forget the map name, with the two side towers.
Anyone tried to move I was like oh hell nah we waiting this out for the win
Global Chat was legit the only thing to do !
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OK, fair enough, but it would be nice if they communicated this clearly and in-game, given that it’s probably the most popular game mode. Then there might not be so many 1st post ‘bring back TDM threads’.
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If that was me I would’ve pushed. I have no patience for camping.
Just miss the fact that people aren’t reckless. You definitely won’t catch people wall bouncing like crazy in tdm because that doesn’t fly as well in this mode. Of course it helps though.
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Wall bouncing is so Gears 1.
All about the hyper bounce Lyf.
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Hopefully TDM is returned to ranked soon, as quickplay is rubbish! I enjoy my few beers and TDM.
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I’ve played Gears since the beginning. Moving TDM and making is one round is mind numbing to me. I just want to play a “you start at your end and I’ll start at mine, Now, bring it!” kind of game. I believe people cry out for great but simple old maps like Canals and Gridlock because they lend themselves to this kind of play. AND ONE ROUND IS NOT ENOUGH. You don’t have to have to love TDM, but please continue give us a game mode that continues to feel like what originally made us fall in love with this game.
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I agree.
The whole purpose of ranked modes is for people to come together to play that mode seriously.
If we wanted to play social we would’ve played TDM in the social lobbies prior to operation 1,2,3 because it’s always been there.
King is just too much lancering for my taste. It completely turns me off. People just rush with no consequences because they’ll revive.
& grid iron is okay but TDM is nice simple & short. If you camp that’s a choice. No ones forcing anyone to camp in TDM.
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So played some ranked tonight…KOTH is awful, really annoying.
Gridiron is actually a really good mode, reminds me of old school Gears, one life and out!
Would still like TDM back in though, has it been took out due to bad players losing a team too many lives?
If so, why don’t they change it so each player has a certain number of lives each, once gone they’re out…
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