Sounds like random luck you got lucky to climb that quickly in those 7hours. Myself am trying to climb out of silver with great difficulty when majority of the random derps you get matched with can't for the life of them focus fire on designated targets to focus down first let alone push a crystal. Im finding PvP trash tier in here there are better mmo's with more entertaining competitive PvP for this and pvp in general to get to a esport level in FFXIV there's alot of things need fixing and I just don't see it happening even though I do enjoy a good competitive pvp mode.