Guild Wars 2

How does the Elo matcher work?

If I have a rerolled, brand new account, am I placed on a tourney team in the middle rating to see if I perform?

Or do I start at the complete bottom with people of the lowest possible rating?

It’s been the general belief that a player starts out kind of in the middle of the road for rating. I don’t know if we have any true proof to back that up or not, but it does fit with what we see for new players in tournaments.

I’m kind of middle of the road for rating (55% atm I think) and I see first timers quite often.

Another variable is your teammates. Sometims a really high rated person gets paired with a low ranked person, vs a bunch of mid ranked people. This means your team mmr might be fairly high even if yours individually is low.

This is bad because unlike in Lol you cant gear out and carry. generally a bunch of averagish players will beat a mix of good and bad players.
Its so easy to exploit whatever point the newer player is watching and just take it over and over, the good player cant be everywhere at once.