User blog comment:Leyrann/Placement Matches - The toxic that creates the Elo Hell feeling/@comment-90.56.65.20-20121128000508

At the beginning of season 3, including placement matches, I watched some streams from pro and they all reached 1k8~1k9+ in two weeks.

They did not play a freaking two thousand games and managed to carry their team by a mean or another (they lost some games too).

If your point is that placement games are important, I guess you're right. If your point is to say that you will never be platinum because you failed to win your placement games (lack of luck happens), I would say that it's pretty wrong.