I played my placements over the weekend. Went 6-3-1. Placed 3037. Pretty good!
Most of the matches went well. PMA helped in some of them for sure, and I wouldn't have done so well otherwise.
My favorite match is probably a Volskaya map that went to OT rounds that saw us with a minute in our time bank and the other team... I don't know, 6+ but a couple of my teammates and I convinced the rest of our team, including a OTP Torb, to go GOATS. We steamrolled our attack round and full held on point B. Credit to my team for holding off the Pharamercy the whole time.
The worst are 1) A Hollywood where we were saddled with Lucio, Mercy, and Ana OTPs who wouldn't communicate and stuck to their picks. I can work with triple support but Mercy's not so great in it, and strong play from our Widow just wasn't enough. We didn't have enough damage to push through. Even after scoring picks, I couldn't push through as Rein without getting destroyed and patient play saw them playing the corners too well for me to handle. Maybe I could have done better. It didn't feel winnable though, even as a 6-5. Their own Ana just played cafe the whole round. Considering everyone else was playing snipers, I don't know if I could have successfully called a rotation? And 2) A Gibraltar where we played decently most of the game until our OT attack round where one of our teammates decided to silently swap to Torb and march straight through the underpass repeatedly by himself even as we called taking high routes. He had been complaining throughout the game that our Ana was wasting nades and not healing him so he... decided to do his own thing, which included marching headon at the enemy Orisa.