The official Matchmaking blog post

the matchmaking i facing every single day nice game but weak matchmaking 

The truth is, there is no matchmaking. Just accept the fact that there are always going to be lopsided matches. Balanced matches run too long on server time. Matches needs to be short for quicker server turn arounds. If you unbalance the matches, you can keep everything moving at a fast pace. Get people in and get people out.

I think players hoping for some big improvement or any sort of improvement to matchmaking in BR mode for that matter (& I speak as a solo queuer) then prepare to be massively disappointed but frankly not surprised.12 matches in so far in S17 & the MM feels just as awful & as bad as S16.Just like S16 it looks like being another season where Apex is going to have to rely on the Mix-Tape to keep players playing Apex.

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@Axs5626Sxa5001 wrote:
@RedmattgameNo offense but what are you talking about?

I have played like 7-9 pubs games and literally everyone has been a Masters or Pred. If we’re all in lobbies ourselves that means we aren’t harassing you or average players.

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Just what are you talking about exactly ? I'm in what you may call the 'average or casual players category' & yet in all the 12 Pubs matches I played there were plenty of pred-trails in pretty much all of the matches.As I mentioned I'm a solo queuer (try it some time & you might have a different opinion) & no matter where our squad landed whether it is on the fringe areas or the more popular areas we were stomped every time by well co-ordinated pre-made squads it seems.And just because you get lumped in the lobbies full Masters or Pred (I'd assume you'd consider yourself one or the other) it doesn't mean us casuals are getting any easier lobbies.does it?anyway. 

@RedmattgameWhen discussing a person’s matchmaking experience, I often like to ask people where they place themselves (which you have done, so thank you), and what their overall lobby composition is.

I’m not saying this is you, but I often find average players complaining because 1-6 diamond to preds are in their match.

As of right now, the “top bucket” pubs are 80-95% Diamond to Preds. Basically everyone has a 4k 20 bomb or they are a smurf. I ask you this HONESTLY— is 95% of your lobby this type of player?

I’m in those lobbies. Correction: I am LOCKED into those lobbies. I often go 100-200 games with no top 5 placement because I am not good enough to beat an entire lobby of Masters and Preds. At best, I am a lower level Masters player; better than 90% of the population but locked into a situation where I lose 99% of my matches (because the top lobbies are all high diamond to preds).

You know who’s not in these lobbies the high majority of the time? Average players. Because if they were I would see them (over the course of thousands of games). Yes of course— sometimes an average player will end up in a top bucket lobby, but every game? No. This isn’t happening. 

So yes, the HIGH BULK of average players are being protected from the top players.

@Axs5626Sxa5001 You speak as a Masters level player & so how can you possibly know or even experience the calibre of lobbies 'average players' like myself experience all too frequently.& so you base your assumption that 'us average players' are some how 'protected' from the best players based on asking players honest enough to admit they are average or aren't as good as they would like to admit.And as a Masters player yourself are you a solo player with randoms or in a pre-made squad because both options are like chalk & cheese & as a solo myself the disadvantages are stacked against you from the start.A fair amount of matches I've played so far this season have ended very early as an unintended consequence of hot-dropping (even on the fringe,outer areas of the map) where say as a team we would land early, than numerous teams would land after & then we'd be pounced on by well-equipped,pre-made squads when we are scratching around & struggling looking for weapons,ammo & loot (rinse & repeat).And if there is any doubt as to finding the level of opposition I have been killed by I always tend to look at their kill stats after & if it's not a smurf player on such a low kill count (or unstated) it's usually by someone with around 10k kills.In one match last night I managed to finish 5th but chose to spectate the team in which they won but their combined total kill count was 123k kills (the highest player was 78k & the lowest was 18.5k) whilst my team had a combined total of 1.9k kills (me on the highest with1.05k kills & the lowest had 210 kills) & can you honestly this is fair MM.