After a long time, I was playing deathmatch, and I noticed these changes. Sometimes these are golden and some of the stars are plain white. Also, the golden ones are not necessarily vs. the person I killed the most.Pardon me for my English....

I have no idea how Valorant handles its AFK system in-game. However, I have had NUMEROUS experiences in which players would go AFK on the first round of a comp game, the game would say "Player has disconnected" and yet it still spawns them...