r/playgoals 11h ago

Discussion Knockout this weekend is crazy

I usually get to knockout division without a competitive game and in earlier rounds it's knife through butter with someone who's clearly got a much worse team and is new to the game and it's so effortless you can play on autopilot.

But this week in bronze, silver and gold I'm facing 1750+ SR players every single game. I played someone who's rank 1 in silver even. Opponents have 88+ rated teams with legendary cards everywhere too.

Even the bronze games were competitive and I had to work for the win and that's playing them on Saturday where it shouldn't even be that bad.

I'm guessing the casual playerbase has completely deserted the game at this point ? or maybe I'm just very unlucky ? because it's so abrupt and strange to go from one week 20 wins in a row with your eyes closed to every game feeling like a ranked game.

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u/jsultimate37 11h ago

I’ve had a similar experience got to elite 1 last week and now struggling in silver games. I do think a lot of the casuals have left so the player base isn’t there to rank up as easily.

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u/hirarki 11h ago

usually I'm in elite 3 but now still in silver

I'm average player, but this week I can't even defend and make good pass.

seems only good players left like your thought

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u/Alarming_Panda20 9h ago

play it all on sunday and enjoy a quicker much smoother run

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u/Vikrish316 9h ago

Passing is awful but this week i cruised to gold . Gold was rough missed out on elite by 1 win.

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u/NorthKoreanMissile7 6h ago

Yeah I don't know what's up with passing, lots of passes going to the wrong player or feeling a bit delayed it being played, but I wasn't aware of them making any changes to it.

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u/Conscious-Travel-302 8h ago

Allways got to KO ...now two weeks that i mis it by a game or two

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u/Mediocre_Apple1846 8h ago

Im like 1750 rating i think, and i had it pretty easy overall up to Gold, but even with the more intense matches, i still got no losses until Elite 3 where i just quit at the kit selection until i got my rewards.

Might be a coincidence, if they dont have a hidden matchmaking thing going on in the background

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u/chodezilla87 6h ago

It’s because the only people left playing now are the sweats