I’ve just been playing Competitive with my friend who is only Level 26 and im Prestige 3. We get into a game and we have people on our team who are very low levels such as level 34 etc. The people we go against would be at least 5 people that are past Prestige 2. we would be playing and come across silver borders that are on the enemy team too. It’s annoying how this matchmaking system for players to be placed with each other can be very one sided and place a team full of low levels with one prestige person against a team with 1 low level and 5 prestige players. Please sort this out, it’s unfair and no fun for me, my friend or anyone else who’s having this problem.
Levels are basically unrelated to skill. If someone grinds out 1000 games in QP they will have a very high level. They will then proceed to ranked and play like garbage.
It should matter for placements and for newly starters cause there can be a chance of a full team on new players going against a team of Prestige players.
Like I said, the “prestige” means absolutely nothing in ranked. If they got that level playing QP, they are still going to be in quite low rank in comp. And well, first placement and getting stomped? That only means you will get easier opponents next match. Or did you expect to be placed in a high rank by not being tested against hard opponents?