hi, a lil about me as a pvper, i consider myself as casual player but someone who has grasp basic knowledge of conquest mode, other classes and pvp itself. as someone who played pvp 7k+ games and reach legendary rank each season in a week or 2. and also someone who spent time in lower division with my alt account. i notice a pattern during matches that turnout to be lopsided blowouts.
1.) upon scoring 150+ or 200+ score someone in the opposite group tends to go afk or just give up.
2) i also notice this become prevalent during season 2 and this season. because of the lost on incentive of players to keep trying to avoid losing pip. during season 1, i have matches where we lose 400 -500 and actually gain pips yes pips! 2 to be exact for losing because our team was heavily favored to lose and we came close to actually winning. this is not the case anymore for season 2 and 3.
3) players skills are drastically diff. specially in sapphire and lower division. for example ele /engi doesnt even gives swiftness to team during start. you wont see much of players swapping classes till you get to diamond+ so team with bunch of ruby VS diamond will almost always tunout to be blowouts. so bringing your sapphire skilled friend to play with you in diamond will give ur team a handicap.
4) having someone DC, a 4v5 will surely be a blowout. (no pip lose its ok)
lots of players seem to just blame the matchmaking for all the lopsided matches and losing streaks they have. and they have the right to do so for Anet is not even clear and not transparent in how the MM works. they could at least make a official sticky in the forums in how everything work if they havent already.