If these are my first placements ever (not ranked before) should I expect to get placed at the rank that I am playing against people at in my placements or slightly lower? (If I maintain a roughly every other game won winrate and the rank I am playing against people at stays the same)
bleufromage1 votesYou can expect to get bronze no matter what. It just depends if it will be bronze 1 or b5. The system is designed that if you don't ing in bronze or silver you will easily climb out. Now I can't speak from experience but I think that if you were high gold you might get placed in low silver along with other higher ranked players from diamond and whatnot. But you said you never played ranked so I highly doubt you will get anything but bronze.
lokhun cs1 votesSince I am facing silver 2-3s now, I assume I will not get bronze and get s3 instead, but do other people with more experience know otherwise?