Memoirs of the Placement days

The following paragraphs are a short account of the past several days from my placements and beyond. During that time I played for about 30 hours and about 30 games, and came out.... enlightened.

Day 1: Placement day

After leaving work early, grabbing snacks, and putting on my favorite tunes, I was ready. Time to climb. the preseason before season five, I had managed to climb up to gold 3 and was fairly certain I could attain gold in my placements. After reading riot's post about the reset being more of a soft reset than a hard one, I had much faith in my ability to get gold.

Feeling very good about myself, I won my first 3 placement games. after playing against many gold and a few plat borders, everything began to change. every single champion was plat 2 or higher, at least 3 were diamond. Still feeling confident, i went into those games with gusto.

Boy was I wrong.

the next 4 or so games consisted of me getting absolutely stomped by diamonds and plats. It wasn't even my team. It was me. I Still tried my best but did very poorly.

after those losses I started facing low silvers and such, which was okay. after losing the next 3 games from causes that I couldn't control (afk's, dc's, trolls, and other bronze antics) I was placed silver III, 0 points.

Day 2: Tilt

angry that I had been placed so low, I went into day 2 with low morale. disobeying the cardinal rule of league, which is don't play on tilt. I spent the good majority of the day losing due to my own error mostly and ended at silver IV 50 points. After my catastrophic failure, I decided to take a break until the next day. Coming out of that day, i was more angry at myself for letting my salt and poor play take over.

Day 3: enlightenment

After the terrible day that was yesterday, I came to the computer desk with a new perspective on things. I was so caught up in my own rank and ego that I failed to remember that these days are but of a few of the total season. I had all year to climb the ladder and better myself as a player. with that mindset I realized that 1 day of placements in the grand scheme season 5 is nothing and doing poorly and dropping rank is all part of the game. people have bad days, and people have good days, but the moral of this story is to not get sucked into it.

GOOD LUCK TO ALL SUMMONERS AND THEIR PLACEMENTS, NO MATTER HOW BAD THEY MAY BE!