📢 SQL System Update — Lobby Bands, Entry Fees, and Scoring Changes!

After this past weekend, we reviewed a lot of feedback about the new MMR system. We heard players from every rank and made adjustments to improve competitive integrity while keeping queues healthy. Here are the major changes going live this weekend!

🎯 Lobby Bands — Skill Based Matchmaking

A new rank-based layer has been added into our queue system. Lobbies will now be seeded based on rank. This will revent Preds or Masters playing in the same lobbies as Golds & Plats. You’ll now be grouped into lobbies that consider your CCE ranks, viewable on the Ranking Board. Matches will start once 60 players within the rank band are queued.

New Lobby-Bands: (will get tighter as SQL player-base increases)
- Lower Tier: Rookie, Contender, Challenger (Gold - Diamond)
- Higher Tier: Challanger, Elite, Ascendant, Champion (Diamond - Pred)

Lobby bands + our latest addition of team balancing via. MMR, should create the ultimate fair and exciting experience for everyone! As the SQL player base increases, these bands will get even tighter, placing you in lobbies with players nearly equivalent to your rank & skill-level. This means: Fairer lobbies. Teammates closer to your skill level. More competitive matches overall.

Important to note: Player-base size plays a huge role in this system’s efficiency. With smaller player counts, rank bands will automatically widen, and all ranks end up in the same lobby.

🎟️ Point Entry Fees, Adjusted Scoring, KP Cap

Each match now has POINT & MMR fees based on your rank. Bad games negatively impact your Weekly Leaderboard score and Rank Standings!

NEW KP Cap:
- 12 Kills / Assists: 120pts max.

This means pushing and aping fights early game is less rewarding AND riskier. Playing for end-game is more rewarding and encouraged.

Additionally: The BEST 10 GAMES rule has been removed, it’s redudant due to the addition of entry fees. All matches during the SQL will count toward your weekly leaderboard standing. All negative and positive games effect your leaderboard score!

We will continue monitoring the system closely this weekend, and tweak things based on real match data and community feedback. More improvements are coming!