Board Game Arena

so many times, players look at games stats and a player may say "look at all that i closed". but reality is, if your partner did not open it for you, you could not close it.
During the game the player that opens more is thinking "can my partner open, or just close?"

i have also logged
https://boardgamearena.com/bug?id=72077
to your orginal statement "uneven distribution"
if the randomization (better shuffles) changed, hopefully it would not be so lopsided

i see you are working on it, but another 2 games in a row with +/- 1 settings and get 3-4 levels and the elite was not able to join with elite. it is very frustrating especially losing elite points. anybody that joins elite is automatically ahead of me no matter what now that ive lost so many lower ...

my Hand & Foot settings are set to only play +/-1 level. however my games have ranged from bronze to elite players. i have not seen this happen in previous arena seasons, what is causing this now? when this be fixed? when playing games with large ranges, a loss it far much worse than any win. th...