[quote][b]Posted by:[/b] chaostheory101 Doesnt matter what you tell me - it's broken. No explanation you could give me after winning 19 games and staying a 23 will be sufficient.. It wasnt fun for any one of the 160 individuals involved in my halo 3-based afternoon with absolutely NO indication that we would EVER have a different experience with that group of people playing. No increase in rank for us and no fun for the legit 20-30 level players AND no progress at all in 3 hours? That means Trueskill failed.[/quote] I am not sure if you want a response or not but the fact of the matter is if you play in a mixed skill party like you did, you will go up very slowly or not at all. Initially it was a 21,23 & 32 in your party and then you added in another later on who was a 1. It doesn't really matter to me if you think it is broke, garbage or just another buggy MS product. On just about every page is someone stating the same thing you did and on just about every page is the same explanation I just gave you. You're probably not going to get a response from Bungie as they have responded to this before. I and others are only here to explain why, explain how and help if we can. This issue you ran in to is something Bungie has classified as a anti-boosting measure that is too aggressive. They said they are looking in to it. Nothing more has been said by them. The person who stated they played 51 games and won 50 and didn't go up was exaggerating. Have a look at his games and see for yourself. Many of the people make claims like this and it is simply false. Others run in to the other known issue where if they only play with the same teammates and never anyone else, they get stuck at around 15 in TS. Until these two issues are fixed, you are going to have to work around them if you want to go up quickly. Seeing as you are in the computer field, you should be familiar with workarounds until a more permanent solution can be found for the problem.