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@Cheese9Man 

As I have noted elsewhere, this is all part of the plan.

Those players are meant to be food for the Streamers, the "Content Creators", the Masters and Preds, as they spend money, so they keep playing.

These poor new players are meant to be entertaining deaths for the masses to watch on Twitch or YouTube for the free advertising.

The same with the casual mid-levels like me.

The game is not the product, the views of our losses are.

I don't blame new players for quitting. They should. Until there is a churn of players, the population drops, until the Streamers and "Content Creators" start complaining because they have to start fighting each other, this matchmaking will not be fixed.

It's a game, but the rules are not for US, it's for them.

Had a teammate try to ark me while I was knocked, not one, but 2 arks, and a frag.

Had to hold hands the entire game, he kept crouch walking the entire map, to the point where I thought he was A.I.

@KyldenarWhat I think is going on is that the matchmaker gives up finding suitable players for the sake of fast queue times.

@Cheese9Man

I think there's more at play here, though fast matchmaking is obviously a priority.. It's become very obvious to me that the matchmaker currently deliberately pairs a decent or half-decent player with team mates far below them. When I solo q, somehow I am that "carry" player, which blows my mind. I am very seldom given team mates at my level. And I am a sub-1 kdr player overall.

Careful records kept from the first split of last season separated out my solo q games from my games queued with other friends. Over the course of around 150 games, my KDR in those matches was 2.2, while my random team mates combined for an average of .39!! That's quite a discrepancy,and particularly noticeable to a player like myself, who can easily tell I am below average based on my performance in group matchmaking.  I am almost never given very strong team mates to carry me.  I actually cannot remember the last time this happened, it must have been several seasons ago.  My better experiences, including my few wins, come from being given team mates who are similar in skill to me, and even that is pretty darned rare. 

As a below average player, somehow my matchmaking experience is the same as that reported by those who are much better than I am. I don't even know what to conclude from this, except that the game's matchmaking clearly has something wrong with it.  I don't even like to solo queue, but I'm forced to do it in order to pad my stats enough to not quit the game out of sheer discouragement.  It's the only way I can see that I have improved as a player, and am not just the absolute worst.  Well, I guess that I can conclude that, in solo q, I occupy some sort of mid-tier MM, in which I am among the higher percentage. And that group matchmaking is so brutal that, regardless of whether I queue as a duo with my high-skilled friend or as a trio with my two other mid-tier friends, I am given opponents who are far above my pay grade.

I should have added that when I queue as a duo with my higher skilled friend, we are almost without exception given a random third who is so bad that they rarely deal more than 100 damage in the match.  Usually, they end up getting knocked in our first encounter and then leave the game.  I can't say I blame them.

That is what SBMM is supposed to do, but if you are putting predators in with fresh accounts, SBMM is not working as it should. It should bend to allow matches to play so you don't have to wait forever. These lobbies are horrendous.