Riot recently started an amateur art competition in which the "masterpiece" that wins will become the banner for the official Riot twitter(was also done last year). I went ahead and picked some of the "best" Valorant ones. Twitter sources...

so i did my placements, got silver 3 and every single one of my matches (including the 5 placements) have been high gold / low plat, even after being placed. Is it just because I'm relatively new so the game is trying to figure out my MMR?...