Bronze players in Plat lobbies are intentional
This comes from RSPN_Exgeniar (Respawn dev) in reddit where he said that there are cases when bronze players can show up in bronze lobbies. This happens when a bronze player is in a pre-made squad with a high Gold rank player (Gold I) being put into low Plat lobbies. The dev said that the pre-made bronze squad can join a plat lobby but never a diamond lobby but people are still reporting that there are bronze players in diamond+. This might be the visual glitch or the MM being broken.
The dev also confirmed what I've been saying in this forum for a long time in every SBMM discussion that short queue times is the #1 priority of matchmaking. While it's good that you can hop on to the next game in less than a minute, it sacrifices quality MM.
Dev statement on Bronze players in Plat+ lobbies
"Just going to correct Bob here.
Bronze player COULD get matched with a platinum player in some intended edge cases. However, Bronze player should NEVER be matched with a Diamond+ player.
We investigated this, and in all the cases we checked, it is a Gold Player in a premade with a Bronze player that gets placed into a Gold + Plat lobby.
This is intended BECAUSE:
Gold players can duo queue with bronze and silver players. When you are in a premade, you play at the highest player's tier. In this case; The Gold Lobby.
Sometimes when queue time is sufficiently high, lobbies starts merging to kick off games. This is a compromise in the design because we don't want these players to wait forever. So sometimes during off-peak hours, this starts happening. This is fully intended.
With that said, this feels like a bug, and I'll look into adjusting this specific edge case in the future"
