Skill squish will not have an effect WRONG!

I've had the same issue. The squish pushed me under the Kyber 1 threshold, but continued to receive Kyber 1 rewards, got 2/3 - which I thought should be enough to stay in the same division, but I got relegated (presumably as I didn't get 3/3). Others with much lower skill ratings have been promoted into Kyber 1. It's not very intuitive whatever is going on.

I don't understand why the squish at all.

Yes, the threshold will need to constantly move each season to keep the population spread as they want it.

If we're supposed to sort out where we belong on the ladder by winning and losing, why squish everyone's points in between seasons? That's going to stretch out how long it takes for people to find their proper position on the ladder. Instead of really starting to get sorted by the end of this season it'll take another 2 or 3 more, if ever.

Some people reported losing points from the squish, like me, others apparently gained points. So what did they do? Bell-curve scaling like they used to do to exam marks when I was at school? If they want the population to fit a model maybe that's what they did?

At the moment we're getting placed in pools that come straight off the leaderboard. So how are we getting sorted on that leaderboard? How do the thousands of players at the same skill get placed on there? If that was also used for the squish, did some people on the exact same skill have a different result based on where the leaderboard placed them?

I obviously have a lot of questions about how this system really works. I want to understand it.

I got promoted from Kyber 2 to Kyber 1 at the end of last season.

Score!
A week of extra crystals for doing nothing between seasons
A second week of extra crystals and 2 wins vs opponents with 2 more GLs than me.

Now I'm back to Kyber 2 but those extra crystals helped me finish unlocking and power up my next GL so who knows, maybe I'll be back in Kyber 1 next week.

Welcome to the churn. This is the way.

My main finished the last GAC on 3713 points. 8-4 record. I was proud of myself; I beat quite a few ppl with more GLs than me, sometimes alot more GLs than me.

Then the squish happened. And my 3713 points became 3643. CG, you effectively stripped me of 2 victories and then you raised the K1 bar. I've now dropped to K2. Meanwhile my alt went 7-5. It finished on 2641. The squish granted it 81 points. It's now in Aurodium 3 after getting promoted to A5 at the end of the last GAC event.

If you need to raise the bar for divisions, that's one thing. But nuking our victories bc we outperformed your expectations is underhanded and outright unfair.

Welcome to CG

I think this was exactly what was intended With imbalanced divisions, the threshold will likely increase every season. I actually expect the squishing to be more severe after this season.

I fell after being promoted last time and then going 2-1 this time, as well. I was 4 points off the new cut. The upper edge of Kyber 3 is up 90 points if I'm doing my math correctly between two screen captures.

Losing 60 skill point when lose a round and winning only 25 for a win a round... is it normal?

3 points off Kyber 1 ?
I went 3-0... was only 12 points off Kyber 1 last time (only because I lost the last match) and then the squish happened...
Absolute joke that the squish will not affect my ability to reach the next division

I guess we can just report the original post Crumb made for broken content?

Yup I climbed to K1 just to have my score changed and the goal post moved. then after going 2 W 1L drop back to k2.