So the 2 guys I usually play with are champ2 and dia3-champ1 level. I’m also champ1. NONE of us were ever in GC, not for a single match. We play 2v2s and 3v3s, depending on who’s available.
This season we got absurd amount of GCs in our matches. Both 2v2 and 3v3, but 3v3 seemed even more infested with GC titles. Interestingly, whenever they actually say something about their rank, they say they are GCs in another game mode, or that they played a long time ago. But most of them still do stuff that we have never been able to, and the rest is just as bad as us, or even worse (which isn’t too rare). But this many “GC in another mode” players, suddenly, out of thin air?
What happened suddenly?
Before this season, seeing a GC title in our games was definitely a rarity. We saw ~2-3 every season, and that was pretty much it. Whenever we ran into one before, they actually played like a GC and they hard carried their suspiciously clueless teammates. This season GC matches are more abundant than the ones without.
Is it because the player numbers are falling so hard that Psyonix resorted to widening the matchmaking search, allowing significantly better (or worse) players to match against us, just to keep the waiting times low? Now that I think of it, as many GCs we get against us, we definitely don’t see just as many clueless opponents. If it’s not the waiting time, then why did matchmaking change so drastically? Is it boosting? Because that didn’t just happen overnight between the two seasons.
What do you think?
EDIT: People starting ranked at a lower rank than what they had in the previous season also can’t be the reason, since we would also be somewhere in low diamond then; it’s the middle of the season, so I doubt THIS many people whould start their freshly deranked season now.
This is just one of those odd seasons imo. I typically hover around mid GC1-low GC2, but I haven’t been able to crack GC1 this season.
Same with all my GC1-GC2 friends. They’re all C3 right now.
I think Psyonix kind of squished us all together with C1s and C2s, since I see them more than usual in ranked.
Well, I haven’t seen this many GCs in other odd seasons. Any other, to be honest. Your guess with Psyonix squishing ranks together is really similar to my theory about widening the search. That would just further prove the falling numbers (after all, they have recently changed the thresholds for different queue health states).
I noticed this too. But is it me, or are these GCs not playing at the GC level? Not saying they’re bad, but are on par with champ 1s and 2s that I’m typically matched up with. Maybe I just expected a GC to dominate, and in reality they’re not much better? I notice that if I find a tem to play with, we win a lot of matches. If I go in solo, it’s about 50/50. Slpoint being thst maybe the GCs play with a squad on a more regular basis.
But is it me, or are these GCs not playing at the GC level?
Not just you. But I’d say SOME of them are not playing at the GC level. There are disgusting duos where the boosted player hangs in the back or whiffs spectacularly, but their GC duo partner just plays 1v2 while eating pizza. The boosted duo usually doesn’t even jump before the ball hits the top part of the goal.
But again, if it was boosted GCs, why did we not see them as often in the past seasons? It’s not just a little more abundant; the difference is out of proportions.