Guild Wars 2

So I, like everyone else who’s had a go at it, am frustrated at solo queue much of the time. I’m really pleased that it now exists, and glad that y’alls are working to improve the matchmaking system, but it’s still really annoying to have most matches already decided before they’ve even begun.

So yeah: do teams get swapped about once they’re created? If not, is this a planned change for the near future?

Quite a lot of the time, I’ll see a team with several sub-r10 players, up against five post-r30s.
Are all teams created, matched against the closest avialable by whatever metrics are used, and then thrown into the match?
Particularly at quieter periods, I’ll find matchups to be horribly unfair - just came out of one in which my team were all aware of how to play, with our opponents consisting of three complete newbies, a r5, and an r42.

While it definitely wouldn’t make teams instantly better, I rather expect that after matching up two groups, doing a few more comparisons and balancing the players on each side (before inviting them to the match) would help a lot with the huge differences in ability that often show up across whole teams.

Matchmaking has been confirmed to have a serious flaw, essentially what you describe. The devs hope to implement a fixed matchmaker in the next patch (Nov 12th).

Also, unranked players (people who haven’t tried solo queue before) enter the system a bit high currently. The devs have also discussed that issue, but there’s nothing confirmed.