Super Titan matched against Gifted

[swimj]

That is really strange. I am #16 in the latest rankings, and had a game open all yesterday which finally got filled today after 20 hours with Harti! who is #8. So if it's the case that the search "broadens" after a certain time it must be over a day, which means p1noyboypj had an open game which probably overlapped with mine, but we did not get matched together. Is the system really that narrow that #1 and #16 can't play each other?

The next question is when it widens why does it immediately widen down to gifted? It could simply search through top 100 players, even top 200 players, and find an opponent relatively quickly with more suitable skill level.

Yipperpants, can you give some more details (when started, who has first turn, etc) to see if we can get a better idea?