I am wondering how people overcome their fear or just press rank constantly. I think I might be overthinking too much but I really want to play the game consistently but there is so much I am scared of (toxic/throwing teammate, bad performa...

I was playing comp earlier in a 1v2 retake (or so i thought) after i get a kill i realize that im not gonna have time to defuse the spike and kill an enemy, so i decided to save, my team later on flamed me because the last enemy was afk for...

Do you climb consistantly each episode and act or do you end up in different rank at the end of each act (drastically lower or higher)?