last season it took, well, we can use the old posts to judge:
Season start date: May 9th.
This post is discussing changes to MMR that will happen on June 20th.
Until this point (June 20th) MMR had been artifically capped at like 2300 or something. I think there was literally 10-20 gladiators in the world by mid June, 6 weeks after the season started. This of course means the same problems existed for everyone far below 2300 MMR.
6 weeks - and that 7th week IIRC was like 15 extra MMR baseline. I don’t think the problem was actually fixed until September/October.
So yeah, HOPEFULLY they learned their lesson and actually don’t corral top players at 2300 MMR for 2 months, but yeah who can say at this point.