End of war matchmaking issue - Platinum 2/3 against top 5 for last war
Greywarden
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The group I'm in finally sneaked into platinum 2 riding a great win streak. With one war left to go we were incredibly pumped at the prospect of getting platinum 2 rewards and knew that it all came down to how we performed in our last war.
We look for a match and 15 minutes later nothing. 30 minutes later nothing. An hour later and we finally find a match, we breathe a sigh of relief until we see the +/-
......114 points for a win and -2 points for a loss. With our current rating in the 2600 range we are going up against a 3300+ rating alliance for our last war which will determine platinum 2 or 3. A whole season of grinding for it to come down to the last war which is basically a death match. Only 5 groups have a 3300+ rating in this entire game. This no longer came down to us but rather a terrible match making system. We're obviously going to try our best but if whoever we play decides to win, they will simple as that.
Why is this bad?
1) Well for us it's obvious. We need a win to stay platinum 2 and unless 30 meteors hit all of these guys houses we'll lose.
2) If they decided to lose for whatever reason (maybe the -114 will give them easier matches for next season) that would be unfair to everybody below us that are chasing us for our spot in platinum 2.
3) If whoever we are facing needs this win to get into top 3 that would be unfair to the top 3rd spot (since 1 and 2 seem to be locked in) they would be kicking out because they got an incredibly favorable match-up.
We look for a match and 15 minutes later nothing. 30 minutes later nothing. An hour later and we finally find a match, we breathe a sigh of relief until we see the +/-
......114 points for a win and -2 points for a loss. With our current rating in the 2600 range we are going up against a 3300+ rating alliance for our last war which will determine platinum 2 or 3. A whole season of grinding for it to come down to the last war which is basically a death match. Only 5 groups have a 3300+ rating in this entire game. This no longer came down to us but rather a terrible match making system. We're obviously going to try our best but if whoever we play decides to win, they will simple as that.
Why is this bad?
1) Well for us it's obvious. We need a win to stay platinum 2 and unless 30 meteors hit all of these guys houses we'll lose.
2) If they decided to lose for whatever reason (maybe the -114 will give them easier matches for next season) that would be unfair to everybody below us that are chasing us for our spot in platinum 2.
3) If whoever we are facing needs this win to get into top 3 that would be unfair to the top 3rd spot (since 1 and 2 seem to be locked in) they would be kicking out because they got an incredibly favorable match-up.
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Only reason you would get this type of matching is if you searched late and all or most in ur rating range found a match already.
At least you found a match. My alliance in season1 missed our searches despite searching for 2.5hours. End of season1, kabam changed how search works and now it is a lot faster to find a match. So.....my assumption should b correct that you guys delayed search.
Same time we always search. War before this one took a while as well but was only 20 minutes.
I see what you're saying but we've been searching between 7-8 every reset this whole season as that's the time that works best for most of our group and have never had a match like this. I know we probably aren't the only ones that something like this has happened to but I can't imagine anybody has had a +/- as severe as what I posted.
You are in tier2. Im sure ur opponent is in tier1.
Tier2 alliances rarely get mached vs tier1. The tier1 ally probably didnt have anyone in tier1 searching at the time, so search prob tried to match them with the alternative option - you guys or others in tier2.
Sucks for you. Next time search bit sooner. Since its end of season, people probably tried to make sure they match searching earlier maybe.
30 Meteors. Dead.
I understand that much of it, just sucks that it all came down to this last war which we have no control over. Searching earlier isn't really much of an option due to timezone. We should be able to stick to the same search schedule and not hold our breath hoping we don't get matched up against a top 5.
A top 5....cmon man the top 5 don't even match against the top 5
I never understood why kabam always had to have weekly downtime for wars and weekly maintenance. Rlly limits things.
I'm sure if whoever we are playing needs this win to go top 3 that whoever they are replacing will be pretty pissed and their post will probably go answered.
didn't realize that until a few minutes ago
But now we know your secret identity 😮😱😂😜
Maybe if you perform well enough, the opponent would be pressured, somehow all your cost in the entire season gets reimbursed or more...
Oh excuse me, don’t mind my rambling!
Also a denial of service attack on a couple key guys may knock out their whole offense
absolutely not, this match-up is terrible for us. We need this win to stay in platinum 2....
Like I mentioned before, the top 5 don;t even play each other but somehow we have to?
MMX knows when alliances start their matchmaking, and avoid who they want... they probably knew what time you search since you said its the same everyday...
U need to be more constructive with ur reasonings.
There is no way they were looking to get this specific matchup
That’s extremely late
Not every alliance can start search at 3pm EST.....people have jobs, lives and for us this time frame works the best for everybody.
A match is better than no match.