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Really? Someone else told me that their friend got the same results and was placed into Silver 3 or something. It may have to do with how well they did the season before... (That was my first time playing ranked).
Correct. Your final placement depends on the ranking of the last season where you were ranked, if any, as well. That's how the soft reset works. So if you were b5 and go 10/10 in placements, don't expect to be placed the same as a g5 that goes 5/5. The gold player's 10 matches would be against higher MMR players than the 10 matches of the previously-b5 player.
Also, as a result of the above, order matters. Going 7/3 could put a never-ranked player in s3 while another player could be in b1/s5. Basically, if you win a match then your MMR goes up and it goes down when you lose. So going up 7 x then down 3 places you higher than somebody that went down 3 times and then up 7. The one player played against higher MMR opponents more often.