Why even have placement matches at all then? If Riot is just gonna push everyone down a tier or 4, just forego the illusion that going undefeated in a placement match is a good thing. The inherent problem with Twisted treeline is that you don't face teams of equal rank when climbing. When you win 5-6 games in a row, you'll hit a team of all diamonds. We did this multiple times. in one of our promos to get into silver 2 last season, we were up against 2 diamonds and a plat player.....to get into silver 2. I say all that to say, climbing back to gold 3 eats up so much time and that starting at least close to where we left off by killing-it in the placement matches seems fair.