Board Game Arena

Suoivax wrote: ↑02 August 2026, 01:34 No, it does not. The only thing used in matchmaing for arena is arena rank.

Huh I just checked and the player was not ranked at all and I definitely did arena search. Maybe a bug or they were searching for a long time already. Thanks for the info.

I am ~400 elo and just instantly matched with a brand new 100 elo player. The game was not close at all and was not really fun for either player. This seems to happen fairly often as well. I would understand matching with opponents with much different elo after waiting for a long time but instantly ...