I thought I was good at Deadlock until its unexpected ranked distribution proved that I'm worse than mid

A few weeks ago, Valve announced a new ranked mode for Deadlock, which grouped players into 11 ranks that each had six levels. To have a rank, players must complete seven games every week by the cut-off of Tuesday—so I played hours and hours of matches to achieve and then claw onto my rank, only to find out that I didn't do as well as I thought I had.

The first rank I got in Deadlock was Ritualist 3, which, for context, is just below the middle rank of Emissary. The ranks progress like so...