[2020] Whats Going on with Matchmaking?

Update went live an hour or two ago that will hopefully resolve these issues. Please let us know if you continue to have problems. :)

There appears to be a bug involving server timeouts, which is under investigation, and the nature of that bug is such that it uses the wrong error code.

So if you get a message about "match administrator" and you aren't in a custom game, then what actually happened is a timeout with the server.

Unfortunately no, with a few specific exceptions there’s no way for the game to recognize the difference between a connectivity problem and someone who willfilly disconnected. The penalty system has some leeway in it precisely for this reason, but if you lose your connection over and over then you’ll burn through that leeway. Thus all we can do is do our best to seek out causes of disconnects and squash them (when it’s possible to do so from our side).

On that note: We made a change about 3 hours ago that should dramatically reduce lobby disconnects specifically. So far telemetry indicates that it’s working, but we’ll continue to monitor it.