Its probably going to take a few more weeks for players to really fall into place but to me it definitely seems like there's an increase as far as the game trying to factor "skill" into how it matches. Especially at the very beginning of the season, that video is exactly what my matches were looking like. It was bad enough that I didn't play for a week because I was trying to see if it was possible that letting the skill distribution spread out a little might help some. Something must have had to be reset or changed because a lot of the time this stuff doesn't affect people that are as high in terms of skill as he is. Welcome to my world suckaaaaaaaas! Jk. I'd be willing to bet that this doesn't end up happening at the beginning of every season for the rest of the year so only time will really tell what it actually ends up looking like or what the overall goal is. I do know that gameplay-wise a lot of the stuff that ends up getting removed by some of these connections the game has been making is where the skillgap is. Its really hard to say why the game is making the matches that it is right now, especially when its happening to players of that level. It would be interesting to see how things have been going in terms of gameplay for people even lower than I am in terms of skill though.