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Does arena not use ELO for matchmaking?
Posted: 02 August 2026, 00:34
by avadionx
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 matching makes no sense. Curious if anyone knows how the matchmaking works and if this is an issue in other games as well? Burgundy is popular enough that I'm sure better matchmaking is possible with some queue time.
Love the game just wish I could primarily play against similarly rated opponents!
Re: Does arena not use ELO for matchmaking?
Posted: 02 August 2026, 01:34
by Suoivax
avadionx wrote: ↑02 August 2026, 00:34
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 matching makes no sense. Curious if anyone knows how the matchmaking works and if this is an issue in other games as well? Burgundy is popular enough that I'm sure better matchmaking is possible with some queue time.
Love the game just wish I could primarily play against similarly rated opponents!
No, it does not. The only thing used in matchmaing for arena is arena rank.
Re: Does arena not use ELO for matchmaking?
Posted: 02 August 2026, 07:36
by Jellby
Suoivax wrote: ↑02 August 2026, 01:34
The only thing used in matchmaing for arena is arena rank.
And only if you set up Arena filters for this game when you search for a table.
Re: Does arena not use ELO for matchmaking?
Posted: 03 August 2026, 03:54
by avadionx
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.
Re: Does arena not use ELO for matchmaking?
Posted: 27 August 2026, 01:34
by avadionx
Suoivax wrote: ↑02 August 2026, 01:34
No, it does not. The only thing used in matchmaing for arena is arena rank.
Like once a session I get games like this where it seems to even ignore arena rank? Not fun spending 30 min playing games like this
But playing against good players is amazing!
Re: Does arena not use ELO for matchmaking?
Posted: 31 August 2026, 23:19
by avadionx
For anyone else that finds this if you search for games from the Play Now page instead of the game's page you can click the gear on each game to specify that you don't want to play against people with way different ELO.
Shoutout to No Wonders for this very helpful video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QHKEMP7xOE