For this weekend, Valve announced an experimental matchmaking system meant to help them improve the player experience in public games.
This weekend you will not be able to search for ranked games while grouped. The ranked matchmaking games will be played only in All Pick mode, Captain’s Draft and Random Draft being temporarily removed. The unranked games will also suffer a change, with the All Pick mode getting the same “picking behavior” from ranked games. So, make sure you make use of those bans at the start of the picking phase in unranked.
Matchmaking experimental changes:
- Parties can only play in unranked matches.
- Ranked matchmaking no longer has Captain’s Mode or Random Draft.
- Unranked All Pick now follows the same picking order as Ranked All Pick
Valve’s experimental patch for this weekend is clearly aimed at finding a solution to prevent solo players to be matched with parties of three or four, which most of the times leads to ruined games.
