Guild Wars 2

I hope the pvp community here can give me some insights about the matchmaking in unranked, especially for lower ranked players as myself. Today I had one of the worst losing streak I’ve ever experienced in the years I’ve spend time in pvp. It took me 10 losses before I scored a win. Now I have no illusions that I’m a fantastic pvp-er, and my win ratio would be somewhat below 50%, but I never got something like this before.

Is there a logical explanation for how things like this happen? I got the feeling I got matched up against pretty high ranked players, and also often the same players I’ve lost to before. I myself never got out of the amber division, but I have no idea if that also matters for unranked. Also interesting, I got the same pvp map for 8 times in a row. I have no idea if things relate to each other, but I’m just interested in how things work.

Some other information: I’m rank 59, and I played all my matches on a condi reaper.
(I would appreciate it if I didn’t get any reactions like: “Just get better.”, I can do without those.)

Firstly, just because you lost 10 in a row it does not mean that matchmaking is wrong, everyone has one of those streaks occasionally and you will probably get a win streak soon to balance it out. (I lost 20 out of 21 games once, 13 of those in a row and the next day I won 14 in a row back in league season one so win/loss streaks are just down to chance).
As for matchmaking in unranked, I THINK that it uses your MMR rating because I have recently been really improving in my play and winning a lot more and I am now finding myself matched with pro league players and after I go on a losing streak, I can never see any names I recognise for a long while, this is all just anecdotal though as I don’t know the exact mechanics for it.
The fact that you didn’t get out of Amber doesn’t mean anything for matchmaking in unranked though, I know that 100%.

Thank you for the quick response. I was mostly curious because I never experienced it before.