East coast server

You're exagerating, I'm from Montreal and I've never ever had a ping of 5. I'm generally between 20-30 at peak hours...and I get my share of 40-50 ping when the population is going down and when it's really late I get sometimes 80-90+ ping (of course I leave before the game start when it happen).

Not saying you wouldnt deserve a server more deep down the east coast but dont make it sound like Montreal are getting crazy near perfect ping, this isnt.

As somebody who has played this series for way longer than I should have, I can vouche for one thing.  Just about every time I play somebody with QC in the name their teams always feel and appear to be quick, crisp, and fast no matter how bad of a team they have.  Against these players my teams always feel like they are skating in mud rather than on ice.  I have heard A LOT from other streamers of the game that they experience the same kind of annoying issues.

I am honestly not sure why this seems to happen all the time, but having 50 ping on our end while QC has 5 ping would make logical sense.  If that is not the case for QC players then I'd like to know why there is such an obvious performance difference between the players.

Agree with this.. QC players somehow have the lowest pings and I get stuck with 80-90 even tho I'm on a dedicated 1.5gbps Fibre connection 

I have 10-20ping in any other online game 

 Just means you have cheap internet. I’m doing everything I can fibre wired and 50 ping. Not a chance in hell you have fibre wired and optimal set up with that kindve ping living on a server.

No I dont have cheap internet lol 20-30 is about the norm. Once in a while I'll get a ping very slithly lower but it's rare... for the same reasons, sometimes I'll get a high ping too, it all depend on who I'm matched with...The server and location isnt centered on me alone. My ping is maybe better than yours most of the time, but neither do I live in the server room.

I'll pay special attention to this tonight and ask a few guys I know what kind of ping they have, stay tuned lol

LOL!

2 guys in my club from Montreal. They both cry when their ping is more than 5. They say it’s unplayable at 30 which is normal for me. 

I’m in Ohio and the best ping I ever get is like 20 on the Central server.

I asked a few friends yesterday night in a random game, both around Montreal, I had a 34 ping, another 32 and the other 28...And my brother have about the same as me. It's in 6s Chel. So I'm about right where I should be. Once we had a 15 ping but most were averaging 20-30 and a few in the 40s. 

I dont know where your friends live exactly or what kind of internet they have but I dont remember ever have a ping of 5 in Chel. I have 400mbit/s internet, way more than enough.