Just fought a Diamond premade guild team with four Rubys and a Sapphire pug group. I played in all 3 seasons so far and only in this one have I seen matchmaking this bad.
The other night it continually put me against a different diamond premade on repeat. After the 3rd loss to the same group, I added a few to friends and waited for them to be in a match to Q up. Normally you see a guild group and think they are normally easy as they were in the past, not this season though.
This season screwed me over on the meta as well. By skipping amber and emerald it made it so I’ll have to get off main class wins at a higher tier. I hope Arena Net fixes this season and if not, I hope they do a much better job next season. Second season was much better than this, they should of left well enough alone