Board Game Arena

So it seems like that is indeed the case. The one more fair solution I can think of is choosing the Swiss system or circle system (I'm not sure how it's called in English) - matches are still open to this exploit but there are more matches and you are not immediately eliminated from the tournament. ...

It's quite bizzare, but in my experience it's not random - it is decided by when the accounts were created, which is even more unfair. From a programming perspective, it would make some sense if they missed it. If the score is equal, players may be sorted by player_id, which may be incremented there...