That’s lobby balancing and it’s the exact reason SBMM and rank based matchmaking in an SBMM ecosystem is idiotic, just like Bungie. When I que a game of competitive, instead of the game finding people near my skill level the game will look for someone to “balance” my skill level to the enemy team. I’m a top 0.1% 3kd player, if the enemy team has three 1.8kd players (which is a good team overall) the game will NEED to find someone like you to balance my team out because if the game gave me two 1.8kd players the SBMM would be swayed dramatically in favor of my team and we would most likely win that game. Obviously this is horrible because you’re going to have a miserable time in that lobby because the average skill level in the lobby is astronomically higher than yours, and I’m going to have a bad time in that lobby because I’ll need to hard carry just for a chance of winning. Our third teammate is also going to have a hard time because the game is basically a 1v3 and the enemy team is going to have a bad time because there’s a chance they can actually lose the game to two players way below their skill level. So GG everyone is miserable. That is exactly why SBMM is idiotic in a competitive ecosystem. You know the funny part? We already knew this. Competitive games should always be elo based and prioritize matching players based on their elo. Chess has been doing this for thousands of years. It’s literally something we discovered THOUSANDS of years ago. We have know this for THOUSANDS of years, and Bungie STILL COULDN’T GET IT RIGHT. Why is it possible that a 0.8kd player can reach max rank and que into a lobby versus three 2.0kd players? Oh right… rank based SBMM… yeah that’s FOR SURE not a problem (obvious sarcasm). Bungie will never change the system btw and do you want to know why? Because under this system it’s possible for all players to reach max rank, you just need to play an ungodly amount of games. Bungie doesn’t want to creat an actual competitive game mode. Just something to play pretend. If the matchmaking was elo based some players would be stuck on the first rank forever and Bungie doesn’t like that. So we’re stuck with this horrible garbage system in the name of inclusivity because everyone deserves their gold medal. Thank you Bungie, we truly have some intelligent minds in this company.