Your rank doesn ' t get a soft reset at all . Your entire ' competitive ' history is still taken into consideration from season 2 into season 3 . They ' re just applying a negativeoffsetvalue to deliberately tank your ' SR ' value . nbspBlizzard don ' t control how good you need to be to be placed into any given tier that ' s entirely dependent on the player population and the clustering of players in GoldPlatinum can be easily explained if you look at how they ' rolledover ' the ranks from Season 1 into Season 2 . nbspS 1 SR Min S 1 SR Max S 1 SR Reward S 2 Reward S 2 SR Min S 2 SR Max S 2 Tier 0 39 10 100 1 1499 Bronze 40 45 20 200 1500 1999 Silver 46 49 40 400 2000 2499 Gold 50 52 60 NA NA NA Gold Platinum 505053 55 80 800 2500 2999 Platinum 56 59 120 1200 3000 3499 Diamond 60 64 200 2000 3500 3999 Master 65 100 300 3000 4000 5000 Grandmaster