Honestly, the ranking system this season is absolutely terribly. Why was onyx removed, there was nothing wrong with onyx. And what is with this bs about not increasing after a win, yesterday I won seven games in a row and didn’t go up a bit. Only our top player on our team went up. So, does the new ranking system reward people playing with other people that are worse than them? Last season was good, I felt like matches were more balanced, now I can barely get a balanced match. We went up against a team where one player had 31 kills and the rest of his teammates went negative, what is this? Why is 343 still experimenting with a game that’s almost 3 years old? I do not like they new changes, I would love it if 343 knew how to release a finished product.
The matchmaking update thread explains the new CSR system and why the qualifying CSR is capped at Diamond 3. You can read about it here.