Gauntlet style ELO is ruining Events

Focusing programs on Events has been such a cool feature for players like me that stop playing Ranked when they reach Champion tier. It’s a reason to keep your team competitive and for a while I was finishing a run in every Event. 

For the last few events it is painfully obvious that once you get about halfway through a run you are going to get matched with Top 100 players and META cheese demons. So far in this Event I have started 4-0 five different times and then can’t even get to 6 wins. 

It’s completely wild that the “casual” H2H mode has heat seeking match making and I just won a Legend Super Bowl against a guy on Level 2 of his team pass with 92 OVRs in his top 3. Feels totally backwards. 

I know several streamers have complained about this so it isn’t a unique take, but it seems to be getting worse with each new Event.

This is why I quit playing in like November, October etc in the last few years. It’s not fun and rewards are worthless

I dont think the other events used this style of matchmaking. This one does for sure though because the better record you have the more time you have to wait on a game.

Kyleb63 said:

Focusing programs on Events has been such a cool feature for players like me that stop playing Ranked when they reach Champion tier. It’s a reason to keep your team competitive and for a while I was finishing a run in every Event. 

For the last few events it is painfully obvious that once you get about halfway through a run you are going to get matched with Top 100 players and META cheese demons. So far in this Event I have started 4-0 five different times and then can’t even get to 6 wins. 

It’s completely wild that the “casual” H2H mode has heat seeking match making and I just won a Legend Super Bowl against a guy on Level 2 of his team pass with 92 OVRs in his top 3. Feels totally backwards. 

I know several streamers have complained about this so it isn’t a unique take, but it seems to be getting worse with each new Event.

ELO isn't ruining the events as badly as the users are. Matchmaking would be great if all of the winners weren't mostly made up also of cheaters.

phatalerror said:

ELO isn't ruining the events as badly as the users are. Matchmaking would be great if all of the winners weren't mostly made up also of cheaters.

I actually haven't run into any cheaters in this event so far.  I had a few guys DC me on purpose in the Super Bowl event.

Kyleb63 said:

I actually haven't run into any cheaters in this event so far.  I had a few guys DC me on purpose in the Super Bowl event.

Glitching is cheating, and that's about all I'm seeing.

Bring back regular House Rules

I've won the last few H2H Events. But I have been getting smoked too. They absolutely are using the most diabolical matchmaking system for events now.

Lol this events a joke. 9 wins and i pick up the first down with 99 AJ Brown with every boost possible to set up a game winning fg. Except a diving shoe string tackle causes him to fumble (first time hes ever fumbled) and 4 of my guys touch the ball but wont pick it up and then his defender reaches thru me to recover and i lose missing out on 1 million coins. I wish they would just disconnect at the begining instead of rigging games so you don’t make too many coins.

ye this event is tough, played multiple top 100 players on my first run after 4-0. Elo/card based matchmaking should not be a thing in events, save that for ranked. But it does say Gauntlet so i guess they didnt false advertise. It's literally a 2 min gauntlet run with same match making.

Yep I'm backed to reg H2H

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That would actually be helpful