Whenever I planted the spike today, I noticed that the sounds were being drowned out. Has anyone else noticed this? Or is this supposed to happen?

After being placed silver 1 this season from gold, I can't manage to get my way out of this rank. I managed to climb to gold 2 two acts ago, and to gold 1 last act. I thought I was doing decent in that rank, until I got placed into silver 1...

I'm not a typical FPS player, came from MMO's but started to really like Valorant. I went on a downward spiral this weekend and wanted to get it off my chest. Beginning of the weekend, I'm bronze 3 with 2 up arrows, feeling good about maybe...