Why am I being queued up with Gold Nova Masters?

[Brighterbubbles]

I am currently in Silver 2 and my teammates are low silver - low gold nova but I'm versing Gold Nova elites to master Guardians 2. I have a constant win-loss ratio of approximately 1-4

[Lollash]

Hard to tell when you dont provide any info.

[Brighterbubbles]

Originally posted by Lollash:

Hard to tell when you dont provide any info.

what type of information do you need

[Nutsnut]

What maps you queued for, what region you play in, what time you queued.

Not much difference between silver and gold ranks to be fair

[skOsH♥]

If you're silver 2, it's normal to be matched with gold novas

Silver 2's are essentially gold novas with more rank decay. At least, the majority who don't play ranked often

I got placed in silver 2 after previously being gold nova 3. I played with gold novas, dmg, lem's, etc.

[Donald Trump]

That’s normal tho

[PatchAdams]

You're obviously referring to matches like these

https://csgostats.gg/match/131980486

where, rather than create lobbies that are fair, Valve's game coordinator just throws together five Silver and unranked solo-queuers against an MGE/LE premade 5-stack. These matches are a waste of time for everyone, and lead to frustration for the lower-ranked players, and unfairly earned/maintained rank for the higher-ranked players.

The game has effectively declined in smaller markets like Oceania and South Africa, and to some extent North America, to the point where new and less skilled players are actively discouraged from playing MM because of lobbies like these. So the game won't pick up many new people. It's a vicious circle and unless lobby balance and issues with the Glicko formula are addressed in CS2, it will make the game essentially a European and Asian game, dead in most of the Anglosphere.

[MediumPlayer]

Originally posted by PatchAdams:

You're obviously referring to matches like these

https://csgostats.gg/match/131980486

where, rather than create lobbies that are fair, Valve's game coordinator just throws together five Silver and unranked solo-queuers against an MGE/LE premade 5-stack. These matches are a waste of time for everyone, and lead to frustration for the lower-ranked players, and unfairly earned/maintained rank for the higher-ranked players.

The game has effectively declined in smaller markets like Oceania and South Africa, and to some extent North America, to the point where new and less skilled players are actively discouraged from playing MM because of lobbies like these. So the game won't pick up many new people. It's a vicious circle and unless lobby balance and issues with the Glicko formula are addressed in CS2, it will make the game essentially a European and Asian game, dead in most of the Anglosphere.

It is getting worse...
My silver friend just played a match, solo queue against a gold nova team of randoms. Showed me a screenshot post-game, his teammates were a 4-man stack of globals. They obliterated the nova team 16-2.
The guy lives in central Europe so there really is no excuse of a match like that existing in the first place.

[Dun Biddler]

Originally posted by LOVE THE PEOPLE & LOVE GOD:

Originally posted by MediumPlayer:

It is getting worse...
My silver friend just played a match, solo queue against a gold nova team of randoms. Showed me a screenshot post-game, his teammates were a 4-man stack of globals. They obliterated the nova team 16-2.
The guy lives in central Europe so there really is no excuse of a match like that existing in the first place.

As I wrote, Valve is a Billionaire company, this is intentional.

Stop making this baseless claim ffs. Provide sources, and if you can't, stop spreading misinformation and go theorize with your flat earth community.

[PatchAdams]

Originally posted by MediumPlayer:

[It is getting worse...
My silver friend just played a match, solo queue against a gold nova team of randoms. Showed me a screenshot post-game, his teammates were a 4-man stack of globals. They obliterated the nova team 16-2.
The guy lives in central Europe so there really is no excuse of a match like that existing in the first place.

That's strange. We're somewhat used to that in NA, but I wouldn't think that should happen in EU, except at weird play times or on rare maps.

Maybe there are just fewer players in MM at the moment because many people are waiting for CS2.

[Brighterbubbles]

Originally posted by Nutsnut:

What maps you queued for, what region you play in, what time you queued.

Not much difference between silver and gold ranks to be fair

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