I don't see how it contradicts itself. The easiest way by far to rank up in these game modes is start a new team and play 10 games without losing. This will guarantee you a hugely inflated ELO compared to what you would get by playing those same games with an already existing AT due to how the game predicts an ELO after 10 games with no losses.
If you get an initial ranking within rank 10 with 10 games, you are pretty much guaranteed to reach top 3 within 20 games no matter what kind of scrubs you get matched with as long as you keep winning.
I can't believe I'm wasting time on this, but ok lets look at your match history
vs rank 34 AT
vs rank 34 AT
vs rank 1638 2 man AT with 1 random
vs rank 18 AT
vs rank 3869 2 man AT with 1 random
vs unranked 3 man AT (rank ~1200 )
vs unranked 3 man AT (rank ~200)
vs unranked 3 man AT (rank ~200)
So you beat one decent team in the past 8 games, 5 games were completely free wins and two games (against same opponent) were games you were clearly favored in though opponent atleast had a chance to win.
Cruzz, I have no idea of your standard of "decent" then, but anyway, that was those Focus guys we beaten to bump our rank from 20 into 3 if I remember correctly, they did somehow well in the early game but their build and strategy was a total failure. The other so called top 40 scrub teams were a joke.
Also assume CELO working properly, they were rank 1, unless that software is flawed.
+ I dont disagree that ranks are hyperinflated when you're unranked vs scrubs and especially in 3v3 4v4.
+ those 3 teams are now ranked 34 and 18 because we beat them multiple times and pulled them way down the ranking ladder.
+ those focus guys are not playing on their full AT team. Sure they rank low on history but they are top 1 when we matched against them. Unless CELO lies.