After the patch, expanding search seem to be bugged and rainbow matches happen frequently, things like 5 bronze matching against 5 diamond/masters.
It never happened if a game is found before the queue timer changes to expanding search, but happens frequently otherwise.
It’s not a bug unfortunately. There aren’t enough players across all ranks to create equally ranked matches at the moment.
Before, search expansion was a prerequisite for a rainbow game to happen. Now it can happen after a few seconds of searching.
it is still a bug.
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this only started to happen right after the most recent patch, before, it happens on less populated servers but never on NA/EU.
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it’s always extreme, master/GM paired with/against low bronze, silver, gold-ish.
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happens at any time of the day including peak times on NA and EU when queues are sub-3mins.
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the matches are usually super one-sided, worst we’ve seen is 5 masters matched against 5 bronze players. the worst i personally experienced was 5 dia/master vs 2 bronze 5 + 3 diamonds, is this normal?
All these happen on peak time on NA/EU when queue times are under minutes, so yes, this is absolutely not normal and should not be happening.