don't worry i am alive and so is the steem monsters ranked system, well not yet
Soon we will all be exposed to a new format of steem monsters where players will need to create new teams with their cards each time they start a battle by following the rules generated when they match with an opponent of roughly equal levels. Though this is quite unfortunate as this means we will need to apply more effort into team creating this means that bots won't steal our precious beta packs, since bots can't make teams... well not yet.