>>536459135
>How do you even manage to get bronze or, God forbid, iron in this game? Even if you lose like 6-7 matches you'll probably still end up in gold at least.
Clearly It's been awhile since you did your first ranked placement.

They ask you at the start what your level of experience with fighting games is.
What you pick strongly influences where you get placed, so if you picked Advanced then what you said is true, you'll probably end up in Gold even if you lose most of your matches.
But someone like that is picking Beginner because they haven't played fighting games like that, so they're starting from Rookie or Iron unless they win literally all of their placements.

Also obviously if you aren't playing ranked for the first time, your placement is more influenced by the highest rank of your highest ranked character.