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Just going to correct Bob here.
Bronze player COULD get matched with a platinum player in some intended edge cases. However, Bronze player should NEVER be matched with a Diamond+ player.
We investigated this, and in all the cases we checked, it is a Gold Player in a premade with a Bronze player that gets placed into a Gold + Plat lobby.
This is intended BECAUSE:
Gold players can duo queue with bronze and silver players. When you are in a premade, you play at the highest player's tier. In this case; The Gold Lobby.
Sometimes when queue time is sufficiently high, lobbies starts merging to kick off games. This is a compromise in the design because we don't want these players to wait forever. So sometimes during off-peak hours, this starts happening. This is fully intended.
With that said, this feels like a bug, and I'll look into adjusting this specific edge case in the future.
Can you please explain how THIS is possible? I am in a platinum ranked game, while both of my teammates are bronze 4. One of them, seems to have just unlocked ranked. There does not seem to be a gold in the party, and we are all randoms, no parties either way.
I am also fairly certain I saw a Diamond 4 in the champion screen. I have been having such games recently, but they're usually with silvers and not the absolute bottom rank against the third highest rank in the game.
EDIT: Also, this wasn't during off time. The ranked queue was 203 people long.
Can't look it up with no info. I also need to ask some one else to look it up for me.
Could easily be a display error.