The title says it all basically. Some of the games in gold you’ll play will be extremely fun, close, tactical games where everyone knows what they’re doing and your actually competing. You feel like everyone is relatively evenly matched and what I would call a high quality game. What the ranked experience is supposed to be. Then, the other half of ranked games in gold your queued with players that are very new to the game and are still trying to figure out the core fundamentals. Realistically speaking, I shouldn’t have to be explaining how the gunplay in this game works in gold. Or what trading / refragging means. This makes the ranked experience in gold extremely frustrating. I am a former plat 3 player. For the first time in my ranked career I am hard stuck fluctuating between gold 2 and 3. I just really don’t understand why it’s possible for me (gold 3) to be match made with a silver 1. Why? Literally why. On the flip side. If I am gold 3, why do I have to compete with a plat 3 to climb out of my rank? Shouldn’t I be better than other gold 3 players instead? I feel like this sort of matchmaking is prevelant in all ranks, however it is most noticeable in gold as the jump between silver and gold is the largest in terms of understanding of the game. Anyways, it feels as though something seriously went wrong this act. That or my 2500 hours in csgo (supreme) and 2 acts worth of plat 3 Doritos magically left my brain and I am actually just a gold player.