No Local Servers for Verified Portal Modes???

After the most recent update a few days ago, when hosting a portal experience, we are put into 200+ms ping servers, instead of our local servers??

This was not the case before the update. Can someone from DICE please assist? We are trying to establish a competitive scene here in South Africa, but this will be a major setback, and people will be put off altogether. 

Seeing that this only happened after the most recent update, maybe it's a bug that can be fixed? 

DICE PLEASE!!