It's taking actual hours for solo queues in premier (low ELO)

[VicPariah]

I'm by no means a good player. I have basically the minimum ELO (1023 ELO.) I am literally just a casual player who likes to play the occasional CS game.

Now, I haven't been playing for that much since CS2 was released, and to be honest I really don't care about this game enough that I would actually feel bothered not being able to play in Premier. Especially when there's things like Arms Race which, to me, is way more fun.

However,

I checked with a friend and they had no warning about me having a low trust factor. I figured that could have been the only reason for the rare match up in solo queue, but since that apparently isn't the case, it must be the ELO.

I don't really feel bothered not being able to get a match. It does seem likely that minimum ELO players that have a normal trust factor is so rare that there's pretty much only going to be 1 or 2 players solo queueing. Yet, when I saw the last game I got (after 4 hours of waiting) there weren't any people queued up together, so it means everyone was solo queueing.

Anyhow, it just seems really goofy that I can actually start up a solo queue before work, work the full day, come back home, and still not get a premier match.

I just want to confirm that it's not a bug.

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I don't even have a rank yet and it takes me like 30 seconds to 2 minutes to find a game.

could be server issues (down or maintenance)
could be time of the day issue (graveyard shift in the middle of the week)
could be a settings issue (max. allowed ping)
could be region issues (less players)
could be trust factor issue
or maybe just a bug

[VicPariah]

Well, my account has been active for a long time, since the release of CS2.

AFAIK, back in CS:GO, I think it was commonly believed that the game would use all the available ranks so that you would eventually win roughly 50% of your game. By that point, there's no real variance aside from the limited rankings available. But, because you just started playing the game, the game probably treats you differently.

CS2 ELO is supposed to go up and up and up, yet there's also that lower cap at 1000 ELO; you can't lose points below that amount. So, everyone else's rating continues going up and up, and so I guess, the more people's ratings go up, the less players will be "left behind" at the low end.

That would be my guess.