Silences are lifted for Placements?? This explains a lot from how miserable my first three placements matches went. I got flamed for picking Anub (i was fill pick and both teams already had weird comps, we had zarya tass gul'dan and rag, they had lunara lucio ((nova pick after the tass)) muradin and li li). This Gul'dan proceeds to blame me every single time he dies and complains about my inability to land my abilities (note: i'll admit i was having trouble but this was mainly happening when i was trying to help him cap top shrine versus lunara and lucio the two fastest characters in the game). I'm not a perfect person and I have trouble not retort flaming so I went off on him and told him to learn to position and stop blaming others for his deaths. Nobody on the team was really saying anything until he decided to flame our zarya for not staying out front enough (note: here me rag and zarya had began to back away from the wall after our dragon had expired in order to secure a kill from the other team, he proceeds to die way way in front of the rest of the team and blames everybody else for their bad positioning) at this point the majority of our team is pretty sick of this gul'dan and he tells me and zarya that he has muted us (Thank God). We won, although I was just glad it was over, he ended the game with 9 deaths and top hero dmg on our team the next highest death count was 3, and I ended with 0. Im 100% sure he believes he's the reason we won... (We likely won regardless of his horrible attitude because the other team's instalock nova was horrible and the other 4 of us on my team played pretty well together)

I guess my real complaint is I haven't seen attitudes this bad in any of my games last, and really wasn't sure what to make of it...