Copa Lucio ball unable to play with friends

So, i suck at normals in this game, hover around low silver to high bronze. One of my friends is at 2400, within 1000 MMR of me. The other was placed 2900 back in season 3 and hasn’t been placed since. We always play lucio ball and placed 3100 range in it last year. Now i login and can’t play with them because skill level is too far apart. Incredibly disappointed with blizzard on this one. Lucio ball is probably my favorite thing about this game.

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The same is happening to my friends and I as well.

Copa Season 1 end scores:
Me: 4003
Friend 1: 4005
Friend 2: 3925
Friend 3: 3624

If Me, Friend 2, and Friend 3 group up it denies.
If Friend 2, and Friend 3 group up it allows.
If Me and Friend 1 group up it denies.
If Me and Friend 3 group up it denies.
If Me and Friend 2 group up it denies.

We can’t figure out what could be causing this. All of us also have not played Normal Competitive mode in a couple seasons, so it’s not like last year’s bug where it’s related to the present season rank.