Getting old with the GP disparity - every level is having this problem besides Kyber 1

"Recurve;c-2355041" wrote:
So basically, there were far too many players in the higher divisions, so the squish is reducing this number and therefore the amount of payouts. This is pushing the larger rosters down into the lower divisions and ergo the squish is affecting matchmaking for players who do well in GAC
Nothing to do with skill rating. These matchups in Kyber 2 are way harder and against higher GP rosters than ever before.

The root cause is not the squish. There are two underlying factors, one long-term and the other temporary:

1. Rosters grow, so there is the inherent tendency of people rising into K1. The "hardware" requirement to stay in K1 is thus constantly raising. Just like how it used to be in the squad arena.

2. The 3rd fleet requirement are pushing down the GP heavy but ship light rosters. Fundamentally this is still part of 1.