Games go like this:
All 5 members of one team were silver last season
All 5 members of other team were gold-plat

WHAT
No improvement from prior seasons whatsoever.

And yet right now they're in the same elo range, hence matchmaking is working exactly as intended.

The goal was to avoid putting players against others who are several hundred elo higher than them, not to stack the teams one way or the other.

with the soft reset anyone between 1300-1600 can and will be put together right now, as they are within 100 elo from each other after the reset

1400-1750 is the same. so silvers can fight previous plat's. just wait a few days to avoid them