I'm going to try and play 2 competitive games a day, which isn't a lot to most people but I really don't game much any more. I bought GO about a year ago and played casual for a few months and then stopped playing until a week or two ago when I decided to get into competitive, a few days ago I got put into Nova 2, then I ranked to Nova 3 the next day and Nova Master the day after. I currently have 2/2 wins at NM so I should be able to rank up tomorrow God willing. I always queue solo and I haven't had a single troll on my team for awhile, so I'm sure my "no idiots" luck will run out soon. I think MGE is the goal for now, I like how it's on the 3rd row of ranks
pls send me some of your matchmaking luck thnx
my experience is very similar to yours, started about 2 weeks ago, got ranked as silver elite, then have ranked up quite quickly to gn2. but ive gotten tons of mm trolls
edit: wow that smoke defuse was hilarious omg