Tourney Matchmaking Needs Attention

[Pyro]

The matchmaking system is outdated with the low player base that this game has. If you are new to poker and get a low rank in tournaments i.e. Bronze then you are ♥♥♥♥ out of luck. You can't queue and play in a ring game or something because the game won't allow it. You literally have to wait in queue doing nothing else for hours. I see silver-ranked players and gold-ranked players start games all the time while I wait and I can't join those tables because my rank is too low. I have to wait for other bronze players or maybe a higher ranked player that is nice enough to downrank which they won't do because bronze takes forever to start. Either allow players to do something else in the game while they wait in queue or allow the players to join higher-ranked tables. Pretty sure most players don't care about playing against higher experienced players. They just want to play the game.

[Major BongBreath]

yea they should do away with bronze in pc version

[Corkinio: Dumptruck Aficianado]

Yeah, there's a guy named "Avengers" who constantly plays in Bronze, doing nothing but going all in all the time. He really sucks the fun out of ranked.

[NonToxic]

Yes, a bad run in my first ranked match of the season effectively kills the whole season because in bronze I can't ever get a match going. Midday, evening, even the weekends hours can go by with no match. Other bronze players come and go, I can't blame them for not waiting when I can watch whole episodes on netflix and still not get a full table.

[KevinLGlory]

So experienced players can join lower-stakes table and bully low ranks, but low ranks cannot join higher stakes tables to save themselves from the dead quene? The restrictions are just making the experience worse for lower-elo players.

[Feix]

Now, first you can't get a tournament table to start, and when it does start, it takes a long time to finish because of the conservative play due to low stake progression, and the long countdown timer given to players.

I think all players should join the same pool and the ranks be sorted out in some new way. That's the only way to solve the problem of not enough players to start a tournament table.

Secondly, the timer and stake progression need to be much brisker so that the average match is about 20 minutes long instead of an hour.

While the table-side simulation is exceptional, it's nothing when it isn't playable.

[Feix]

Originally posted by Corkinio (♥♥♥-In-Yu 他妈的男孩):

Yeah, there's a guy named "Avengers" who constantly plays in Bronze, doing nothing but going all in all the time. He really sucks the fun out of ranked.

All-in-all-the-time is only a problem at cash tables but never at tournament tables.

[KevinLGlory]

Here's a crazy idea, reward players with free 5000 chips for every 15 minutes they wait at the table without it starting.

[NonToxic]

I don't want chips, I want a match.

[MrBananaGrabber]

If they could add crossplatform support it would hugely help.

Another option is to allow people to play casual games while they're waiting for a tournament to start.

[[FR] - Spl1t -]

I want to join a tournament but it seems impossible. Is it because of that or is it because no plays the game anymore in ranked?