So, seems like placements are indeed heavily influenced by your S2 SR. It makes sense and all but, not sure if it's a good thing. Also lol apparently there's people who 6 stacked and after their placements, boom can't play together anymore cost 500 SR limit and all. It's pretty dumb tbh, and I personally wouldn't mind if 6 stacks at the bare minimum have their SR party limitations completely removed. It's a 6 stack, they can do whatever the heck they want. While heavily using S2 SR to influence placements make sense, idk if they ever did make sure the deviation/uncertainty increases back to maximum at the start of a new season. If they don't, I personally think it should. It's a new season anyway, and gives people a better chance at rocking their SR, be it higher or lower.
Re: elo hell etc. I've watched Gold games cos friends streaming it on FB and stuff. It's just omg... lol, no one who knows how to play will ever want to play at Gold even if they win 80% of their games and what not. It's a torture even if you do eventually get out of that range. As with regards to mentality where you'll enjoy games more if you care more about winning less, I don't buy it. I wouldn't care if games are losses/draws if the game itself was great and fun. I wouldn't even enjoy wins if the game was dumb. The only good thing about wins is you get to hopefully increase your SR and you get CP! I personally dislike comp (at least soloq) a lot, because games just don't freaking make sense lol. People do things that don't make sense all the time and having to inculcate bad habits just to overcompensate for bad plays is really annoying. I don't care if we win or not, and whether if the players are good or not. It really just has to be sufficiently logical. If games at whatever level makes sense enough, it'd be fun, for me anyway. But from what I see, Diamond/Masters don't even guarantee that players are logical anyway. Also the best way to climb for whoever wants to, is just to DM the heck out of everything, which I don't really enjoy so yea. Sorry but my sense of fun is really narrow xD I just see comp as a glorified QP with CP unless I play in a party, in which case we can just micro-coordinate the heck out of everything even if the other team has better DM. As to how game makes sense... well, really basic concepts like not feeding, knowing how to group up and push, not repeatedly dying to obvious disadvantages/counters, knowing to cap the point and stuff lols. Ideally people should also harp less about the meta. I just eyeroll so much whenever people want to follow the meta 9.9 I should probably not care and play whatever is right, even if it willfully tilts my own team.. but tilting and stuff is also part of playing comp, and reporting for the dumbest reasons is also a thing... I myself have plenty of flaws and limitations too, but I'd be perfectly satisfied with games if majority of the people can grasp bare basics and not be annoying and harping on all the wrong things or blaming people. Anyway, all these aren't just applicable to Gold. It happens at all ranks lol, sadly. Presumably it should happen less at higher ranks but eh... (Asia/SEA is really bad to play in imo; but still better than LoL from what I hear! hahaha).
re: rank symbol staying immediately for Diamond/-. I get their intention, but it'd probably be better to attach a minimum number of games played before it becomes permanent, similar to the Top500 requiring x number of games. This would also help cases where people get placed too high and then drop down significantly. Doesn't help with lucky streaks though, since by probability, they are supposedly rare, but it could do with the uncertainty increasing too much during streaks. When people talk about streak bonuses, I just think it's more of uncertainty increasing which gives a side effect of SR becoming more volatile, thus appearing like a streak bonus. If uncertainty doesn't increase that quickly, it would probably help.
I should learn to type less rantily-ish thing !!! I have too high expectations hahaha >_>
Anyway, best of luck to everyone at getting better ranks than S2!! :) And have fun ! Maybe we'll see more Diamond+ this season yea ??? Also moar gold guns !! I didn't even play enough to farm one for S2 rip the end season rewards getting nerfed ;o; I wouldn't even get one if I reached masters for S2 lols.
Also here's hoping for a better Symmetra rework and maybe Mercy rework, and Ana nerf, other hero tweaks.... etc. xmas season is the time to hope for stuff right ??? hahahaha :p
e: also how many awards did OW win omg O.o
