Apex Legends Matchmaking

@Gator762FMJ 

I think any game that wants to be taken seriously as a competitive game with a pro scene would be in serious trouble if they force away the good players, i.e those who invest time and effort into the game.   And where do we draw the lines? In a hypothetical scenario when the 5% diamonds, masters and Predators are removed from the queue, then Platinums would reign without contest etc etc. Remove the platinums to the Diamond/master/pred queue and they would be in a much worse situation than how it is currently because EVERYONE else are in their lobby would be either equal or better etc etc. You see the dilemma? 

I dont think casual mode is good, frankly I think its on the verge of trolling by Respawn to allow 2-stack duos sometimes even full premade trios, of Predator skilled players to play vs squads of low-to-mid skilled randoms. Every time I group up with my expred friend (I am exmaster) and play casual trios with one random, we steam roll pretty hard. But apart from this, I think you are quite far away from the truth when you say that they "cater to the top 1%". Most casual lobbies you join as a solo has maybe 1-4 master/preds, 10ish Diamonds and the rest plats and below etc. And I am 100% sure that the SBMM also sort out the very very worst players, even over lvl 10. My IRL friend is literally struggling in Bronze, 0.2 K/D and he is lvl 80 now and is clearly playing in another solo matchmaking than me.

In the "perfect" world, then Ranked would be the game mode where you could play against actually equally skilled players. But Respawns ranked system is so flawed with all the smurfs, soft resets and "snakes" i.e players who climb the ranks by just avoiding fight, leaving them with silver fighting skills in Platinum lobbies etc