Haven’t played placements yet, I usually play senti or duelist I’m west servers and I can play central as well
from my experience the games are indeed easier at the start of episode and as episode comes closer to an end I get more and more clueless teammates and I also usually get bored of the competitive so i slowly start to underperform. it's because I am on college and for now I don't have personal pc in the apartment where I live while the semester is going on so I go to local gaming caffe, and since I don't have permission to install games I usually play on the pc at home, I play only Valorant (solo q, duo q only with ascendant friend) and a bit of Marvel Rivals with other friends. Hopefully I will spare some money to buy CS prime so I can start playing CS again too.