so for the past two weeks matchmaking has been very different. It seems that a majority of the matches were heavily uneven. This post is about the system's inability to find "fair games" and whether anything is being done to fix it. I am going to define "fair" as a game that consists of similarly ranked players on both red and blue team. i.e. team blue: 4 diamonds & team red : 4 diamonds.



Before I continue let me share some information: I am currently a diamond 4, I have my search preference set to Balanced, and I solo queue (yes I understand it is disadvantageous to solo queue when playing team matches but thats besides the point).



I have matched against champion level players in a lot of my recent games (but i havnt matched with champions). I'm not disgruntled that I am playing against champion level players... What bothers me is the fact that I wasnt matched with the same caliber of player on my team.



Here are some examples from the last two weeks (im on the losing side for all of these matches):



three champions and one onyx vs. three diamonds and one onyx... score 50-21

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-ca/games/halo-5-guardians/xbox-one/mode/arena/matches/318b81f8-f94d-4822-8dd0-b57d3a2757d2/players/pablo%20says%20hi?gameHistoryMatchIndex=18&gameHistoryGameModeFilter=All



two champions, one onyx, and one unranked vs. one diamond and three unranked... score 50-21

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-ca/games/halo-5-guardians/xbox-one/mode/arena/matches/0fd32e66-bbdd-4571-b759-4ddf5ddecd46/players/pablo%20says%20hi?gameHistoryMatchIndex=42&gameHistoryGameModeFilter=All



two champions, one onyx, and one unranked vs. a diamond, a platinum....., and two unranked... score 50-22

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-ca/games/halo-5-guardians/xbox-one/mode/arena/matches/c8442167-e9c3-42e9-8728-4ab313763614/players/pablo%20says%20hi?gameHistoryMatchIndex=43&gameHistoryGameModeFilter=All



two champions, an onyx, and one unranked vs. one onyx, and three diamonds... score 50-21

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-ca/games/halo-5-guardians/xbox-one/mode/arena/matches/3fcb5711-0697-469b-acb1-8c8624312f67/players/pablo%20says%20hi?gameHistoryMatchIndex=72&gameHistoryGameModeFilter=All



three onyx, and one champion vs. four diamonds... score 50-30

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-ca/games/halo-5-guardians/xbox-one/mode/arena/matches/7e6530e8-b0f2-4bf1-8bc3-be030f4fd2cb/players/pablo%20says%20hi?gameHistoryMatchIndex=75&gameHistoryGameModeFilter=All



two champions, one onyx, and one diamond vs. one onyx, and three diamonds... score 50-20

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-ca/games/halo-5-guardians/xbox-one/mode/arena/matches/8278575f-670f-409d-bddd-8b85c9c4a1e5/players/pablo%20says%20hi?gameHistoryMatchIndex=79&gameHistoryGameModeFilter=All



two champions, one onyx, and one diamond vs. one onyx, two diamonds, and one unranked... score 50-26

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-ca/games/halo-5-guardians/xbox-one/mode/arena/matches/e87dc578-037d-4afd-88cf-59de2a7dec6b/players/pablo%20says%20hi?gameHistoryMatchIndex=120&gameHistoryGameModeFilter=All



one champion, two diamonds, and an unranked vs. two diamonds, and two unranked... score 50-35

https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-ca/games/halo-5-guardians/xbox-one/mode/arena/matches/54d3a1fd-d268-4e6a-857a-200dfe15daf4/players/pablo%20says%20hi?gameHistoryMatchIndex=170&gameHistoryGameModeFilter=All



Whats weird is that I had a 52% win percentage, in slayer specifically, and I've dropped down to 43.0% in less than one month. I always solo queue so it's not like anyone was previously carrying me...I just want to know what has changed or what will change...



thanks,



pablo