Non playable carbonite

I agree with EN6A6E: Carbonite just has a massive number of players in it.

On another note, one player put it to me this way. You can see it as being given a fair competitive match up, or as being given a match up based on your chance to win. It’s not a fun, fair, competitive match up for someone like me with a bunch of gear IX to be paired with GL accounts. On the other hand, for one reason or another, a lot of players end up being inactive, so you can win on 10 banners (I.e. I did have a good chance of winning).

What I don’t understand is how inactive players end up in Grand Arena anyway. I’ve been paired against some people and sent them ally requests, only to see through that that they’ve been inactive for hundreds of days. This doesn’t make sense to me seeing as you have to be active in order to hit the enter button to participate in that round of Grand Arena.