Matchmaking is broken as of today

This was my experience as well, played out over the first two weeks of the season. Though oddly enough, no matter where the graph put me on the skill curve, and no matter where the grey area fell, my enemies were always brutal. I assume that means that the game is filled with new players who are not actually new at all and the system is just flailing around while it tries to figure out where it is that people really belong. In the end though, where we all belong is filling in the master lobbies when there aren't enough actual masters to go around. That's how it works.