We've got the data we needed, and we've reverted the map sizes to normal. The matchmaking changes will remain.

As it seems there was confusion about player changes on the maps.

The reason we changed map size is the matchmaker works with the number of players, and the buckets (servers) it puts players into. So we were trying different sized buckets than we had before, nothing else.

We will use this week to analyze matchmaker changes with normal map sizes.

Thank you all for helping out!

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Previous News from Friday:

This weekend we will be testing our matchmaking system, as well as match sizes on LIVE. Examples of changes are smaller match sizes so that we spin up more servers for fewer people and Matchmaking settings are more strict on when to start up a match, as well as minimum players.

This will affect queue times, for better, or for worse. Hence us testing, but this is important data and for the greater good.

Nathan