Finding a lobby

Agreed match making certainly needs a rework, I didn't race this last week because of hoping they'd fix the Elite achievement so that'd I'd never have to play ranked again! I spent like 20 minutes searching for lobbies to find like 3/4 people in them, which for points is basically a waste of time as for a race win you'd probs be looking at 40 points so chances are you'd have to do like 10 races to even stand a chance of promotion ( I would anyway purely as I only ever race on a Sunday night as it means you need less points to rank up instead of seeing this massive groups of 1000+ points) and because I didn't race this week gone It relegated me again! so dropped from silver 2 back to bronze on top of the season relegation of being in Elite and being relegated to Silver... So ended up with back to back relegations because EA haven't informed anyone of what they're doing... The seasons relegations I get and expect they want people to play the game and with the bonus you get for the higher divisions that's the incentive they're giving for podium pass stuff. but you shouldn't get relegated for missing a week within that season.

Wouldn't say having people in gold / Silver / Bronze would particular work as I'm pretty sure if your Gold and beat a lobby full on lesser ranked people you get next to no points for it! and people will not do it for the risk reward factors and like you've said people in bronze have the potential to drive like idiots and if they decide to crash you out you're losing points for not finishing the race anyway.... so I'd see it as you'd get lobbies becoming smaller and smaller because people don't want to risk racing with idiots.... but agree EA need to work something out ASAP because 95% of people haven't a clue of what they're doing regards this ranking system and how it's supposed to work, and before long ranked will just end up with no one doing them!