DMG has the highest group of people in varying skill. There are low end DMG's who are gloried gold novas, then there are the high ranking DMGS who can play on par with SMFC. DMG has this huge variance in skill level and it just so happens to be the place people get stuck at in a rank the most. When I got out of DMG, I climbed to LEM in 2 days, while before I was DMG for months.
This is the truth. The ranking system suucks. DMG should be 5 ranks or something. It is incredible how bad some players are that got to DMG because they played with a team, and then we have those sick players that got there because they can't carry their nova friends and everyone just becomes DMG. Now I can get out of it easily but I have to soloQ, was stuck for a year tho.
I somehow managed to get to LEM on my own after about a month or so of playing last summer; however, since then the hackers and kids who don't necessarily play the game made me derank to the nova era. needless to say I cannot get out of the gold nova rank at all! I think I'll stick with the third party sites such as faceit, cevo and esea.