Strange things

I thought it is just a coincidence. Now I am sure it is not:

1. You click [New Game] button and wait for long time. The server can not find opponents (and teammates) for you. You click [Cancel]. Then click [New Game] again and appear in a new game after 1 second. It happened many times. So, it can not be a coincidence. It is some error in the matchmaking system. So, if the game does not start in 1 minute, just Cancel and then New Game again! Do not waste your time waiting.

2. You click [New Game] button and wait for long time. The server can not find opponents (and teammates) for you. You click [Cancel] and ... a new game starts and you appear in that new game. It also happened many times. I can not prove this, but it does happen. Is it a bug? A feature? A coincidence?

I've experienced this same phenomenon as well. My hypothesis is that it's related to the matchmaking filters and rating ranges. In other words, let's say I fire up a FFA game where my rating is something like 1615 and my matchmaking filters are 1500-maximum. Then let's say the next player in the queue fits my criteria, but his filters are somehow incompatible with mine, such as maybe his rating is 1505 and his preferred range is 1400-1600. Or we find a third player who fits both of ours but has incompatible overlap somehow. 

So maybe that's a messy explanation or maybe it's completely wrong, but I agree if you just cancel and retry then it resets your matchmaking and the game often ends up starting immediately

Thanks for the confirmation. A bad side of this is: when you invite a teammate and you both wait, but a game does not start, you need to cancel it and the re-invite the teammate. So, he/she must notice that new invitation and accept it. However, the teammate may be not looking at the page (which is normal) and just waiting for the game start sound. He/she may be watching TV at the moment, or reading news. 

It should be fixed.

Yeah, it happens to me. If it takes a few seconds I automaticallly click "cancel" and "new game".

@JustinD1986, look from other point of view. I test it and report all found bugs. It helps to make this game better. (And better for you also, by the way.) So, I contribute. But it is up to you how to look at my behavior. I do not care and will continue to complain if I find it effective. Due to my complaints we now see @ignoble back here, and the rating range selector finally fixed. So, it works.

Feedback like this does indeed help the game.  @BabYagun's complaints tend to be very clear what he thinks needs to be improved. Just constructive feedback.

Maybe the pairing algorithm should be tweaked a bit, but it does seem to be working.

Me too

One more case:

I invite a player. The game shows matchmaking arrows. I wait, the game does not start. I cancel and then invite the same player again, but it writes: "... is not connected". The invited player disconnected, but the game did not stop the matchmaking. Previously is wrote something like "... left the matchmaking", now it does not.

that happens to me too

ditto. it happens.

@BabYagun

yeah this happens to me alot especially in teams when a game ends i don't hit exit then start a new game i just click play right there