At least in the first bracket you can hardcarry a lot of games, once you hit plat the game gets into similar coinflip but this time it's which team gets the plats that are actually climbing and which does get the ones that got lucky streak at end of gold.

They should have put demotion all the way down to gold if that is part of the first bracket anyway. Had to spend like another 40 games to climb to Crystal which was mostly spent wrangling the clueless plat players until I started getting Diamonds which were less coinflippy about being straight up horrible or great and were for most part at the very least average. Winstreaked through most of Diamond because people could play as a team for the most part, the current system doesn't completely eliminate bad players from high ranks but at least it has filtered them down by a lot.

Absolutely worst part of the matchmaking is the adjustments to get fast games, getting a gold 1 rank up person in a game with mostly diamonds is awful. Still getting mostly plat games occasionaly in high Diamond makes it a game of guessing wheter you get a plat game where you should play something to carry it or wheter you get Dia/Crystal match where you can actually play the more team oriented Jobs.

Crystal and High Diamond is starting to fill with the regulars from the past seasons with occasional new face, which is nice.