Guess this post is more talking to myself, and I have no one to share this hahaha. I used to be very active in 1.5/1.6 days. I graduated in 2007, for whatever reason I just never own a PC in that 18 years span. Just mostly school & work laptops. But what was crazy; CS was always back in my mind. I would watch some Twitch streams here and there, and talk to some old teammates about the game. It's wild to think most of us are in our late 30s or mid 40s.
I finally bought a gaming PC last fall! But like almost every unc gamer, I'm generally really busy with life. So when I got back, I was hard pressed to get into the competitive mode, let alone premier. Mainly I could very well go AFK at any moment, or just exit the game if my little one crash out. Fast forward after 130 hours (5-10 hr per week via casual mode), my wife went out of town with my son. I was thinking to myself, this is a great chance to try out competitive mode to dipped my toes. I'm very much inexperienced with call outs, limited to Mirage/D2/Nuke and ulti uses. But I can still very much aim and frag someone.
Anyway, I was like screw it. Finally decide to solo que on premier and after 4 days. I got my first 10 wins and initial ranking at 14.5k. I believe I went 10-4. I learned a lot for sure, and I got humble really quick when I play Ancient, for the first time and our team got swept 13-0. As for the cheating goes, I've seen my teammate or other team hit some really nutty shots. I forgot how much I really enjoy the good and the very bad match lol. I think going forward, I can probably only squeeze in one or two match per evening. Enjoy your time with this game, in the blink of an eye, you will have a SteelSeries mousepads older than 75% of this community.