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Hey Aljo, I appreciate this reply. It's the first one I have seen that even notes the change to matchmaking was intended and was intended as an enhancement. Considering your level of responsiveness in other topics I really found it strange how there was a complete silence the first couple months when every other post on this forum was about matchmaking. Blink twice if you were/are under a topic moratorium.
As for feedback, I can share my own experiences. EASHL, usually 4-5 skaters, always AI goalie. Matchmaking has been very uneven. Controlling for time of day (usually 8-10pm ET), we usually get matches in a bout 90 seconds. However there does seem to be 2 or 3 times a night where something breaks and we sit for 6-10 minutes with nothing being found. We back out of the locker room to try searching again. And maybe it's superstitious coincidence but it seems to help.
We have a hard time matching against opponents our level. We are solidly in upper gold (21,22k RPs) but we seem usually get games of all 16-18ks or 24k+.
Blink twice if you were/are under a topic moratorium.
Lots of people have been thinking this from the beginning, that they were told not to engage with certain topics. This being one of them.