They said it couldn't be done... My journey to platinum

After starting League of Legends during the Chinese new year of 2012, I have finally achieved platinum rank just days before the season's cut-off. But this isn't just a normal platinum success story, this is quite personal. It all started last season. At that time, I had trouble sleeping at night throughout the year and wasn't able to play ranked very often because of it. Despite this, my dream was to achieve gold. I was placed in Bronze 1, but quickly rose to Silver 4, decaying down as the months went by. In October, I managed to reach Silver 1 76LP, but was unable to advance further. My dream was crushed.

I didn't play ranked this year really until September. I was placed in Silver 5 much earlier in the year due to an enormous amount of teammates disconnecting. I worked with my friends to get to silver 2, but began to notice that I suddenly stopped winning games with them. They would have odd lag spikes or strangely get negative scores leading to our losses. It seemed like gold was not reachable. One of them later broke his vow to the group and told me in secret that they had been personally stopping me from advancing to gold because they were afraid I would brag about being a higher rank. It really hurt me to see my friends do that, and I sort of thought that I wouldn't even be good enough to get to gold. The next time I saw my friend, I told him I wasn't going to gold. I was going to plat.

Renewed by a quest to spite my friends (they didn't know that I knew), I went on winning streaks and got to gold two days later. I was gold three by Canadian thanksgiving. I went all the way to gold one and started losing. It seemed hopeless. Somehow I managed to work my way to my series and won two in a row... only to lose three and lose the promos. Constant defeat followed me after that. One of my friends who had originally been part of the group decided to help me. With our teamwork, we managed to get through some of the best games of LoL I have ever played in my life, finally resulting in Platinum rank. Just for fun, I raffled off a mystery skin to all of the friends who purposefully made me lose before. Remember, even if you are stuck in bronze or silver, you can always move forward with enough determination. It sounds absurdly cheesy, but it's true. TLDR: Didn't make my dream of gold in S3, friends purposefully made me lose in S4 to stop me from getting gold, to spite them I went to plat.