SEA is always the testing ground first, and i noticed over the last 1-2 seasons, after 5 mins of searching ill end up getting master players and stuff and get +1-3 points whereas it wasnt possible before and i would have been made to kept on waiting. so i think they are just applying this to the whole world now and perhaps cutting down the wait time?
its okay for everone else but its going frustrate the players at the top like mafia who wont be getting good games, although they will get very good win ratios.
No, I'm pretty sure what happened there was they introduced an MMR cap so the MMR can't rise above a certain point, this was due to people at the very top of GM never being able to get matches (you might remember the Huk smurfing incident because he literally couldn't get a game on his main account).
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