Four 4v5s out of ten matches so far in the past two days. Has there been any word on a possible fix for this with the upcoming changes? Why do these matches count for / against the participant’s ranking in the first place? If more than 75% of the match duration is four players against five, why doesn’t it discard the match from counting entirely?
I had a match that started 4v5 today, we won but it’s still annoying.
We’re working on a solution that is both fair and, hopefully, doesn’t waste people’s time. Not ready to talk about the details yet, but I will say we have definitely incorporated a lot of the community’s feedback. Unfortunately, it won’t be in this feature build because it’s part of a major refactoring of our back-end systems.
???You won a 4 vs 5 from the start? Was this hot join and not a queue or another failure in matchmaking putting a bunch of level 1-38s in a game of 40+s?
YoloQ. The teams were pretty even rank-wise. We were all 20-30s, they 20-30s with one in the 40s. We just had better point control. They got their act together near the end of the game, but by then it was just too late.
The next few feature blog posts are titled “Facilitating Friendly Play.”
I really, really hope one of these will address this issue.
They will not. There just wasn’t enough time to get the back-end changes done. 
