As someone who had a group of people who were beginning to get into the Ranked queue, it is disappointing to me that 8v8's are going away. But as a previous poster said, Ranked is inaccessible to a large portion of the servers it actually takes place on. I don't think it's a good choice, no, not at all, but personally, if I had to choose between 4v4 and 8v8 ranked, I would choose 4v4, as I'm basically unaffected by whatever happens to 8v8. That said, I think 8v8 should remain for those interested, and don't see any actual reason it should be removed, and believe it's a silly thing to do.