Title. Every game has had at least one person go 3-4, 1-16, 2-12 either actively throwing, playing at bronze level in a plat lobby or throwing the game once they realise they play at bronze level. Always maintained positive K/D.
How do I avoid these people? Why does Blizzard keep putting people in my games that’re obviously not meant to be there? Are there certain times of the day where the matchmaker struggles to place throwers on your team?
Just usual engagement optimized matchmaker rigging - it wants to provide you a forced loss if you win too much - and it sometimes permits 2 wins , sometimes 3 , sometimes 5 - but then provides same amount of forced losses in return so you can stay in your permanently assigned rank
and if you win somehow despite the rigging it ensures you get a loss no matter what next game
They might be deranking ahead of time for the end of season drive event. There’s 18 days left of the season.
When does this period usually end?
The drive comp event is a new thing. It’ll likely be for the last weekend /week. People might throw ahead of time to get their mmr settled lower than it actually is to have a lot of easy matches to get the nameplate stuff with. (No concrete info here, just basing this on what happened last season)
From what i’ve gathered, the best times to play comp is like, from the 3rd or 4th week of the season to the 6th (and never during weekends nor school holiday times). We are basically at the end of that 6th week now.
Can’t say anything for certain. Quality might be better after the next 4 ish weeks.
It’s roughly every other month, because at the start of seasons, lots of new people are getting their rank calibrated (could have silvers in plat if you’re unlucky). And once people reach a new personal best around mid season, they start tapering out. And with less legit players, the more lilely it is to get non legit/throwing people on your (and the enemy) team.
I don’t know the mumbers or odds, but that’s what it seems like.
Bump because this is getting ridiculous. Have queued once a day on open queue for maybe two weeks now and have gone down from mid-high plat to almost gold- every team has composed of bronze-level players or has contained someone actively throwing within the first minute of the match. Have outscored my team by a wide margian in either deaths, damage or elims every game- this isn’t me bragging, this is unironically just what it is. Enemy team without fail plays to their level every time- have had 1-2 wins and both times they put up a fight to second round. All losses have had us begin on attack and never push past first point or have had the enemy cap last w/4+ minutes on the clock, our timer goes to spawncamping.
Last game our Ana nano’d me only in situations where I was suiciding the other tank off cliffs or he was suiciding me, our ball went 0-6 feeding religiously. Junkrat had their Zarya at full charge the entire game, no exceptions, never finished her off. Team never switched up comp. Coms and chat were entirely silent besides me.
This sounds like whining, I know, but I’m convinced the matchmaker either has me permanently in some sort of loser’s queue to force derank me using bad players or has bugged out. I’ve never had it do this before.