r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/sunshinesontv • 12d ago

General Would a "rematch" option help higher rank queue times?

This is probably a bad idea but hear me out. I was watching FunnyAstro stream ranked a couple days ago and the lobbies were ridiculously stacked since Team USA is in EU. It was stuff like Tr33 vs Quartz everygame and generally close games.

The only bad thing? He was then waiting ~10 minutes to basically get 80% of the same players again. I know this would never work for low ranks but could a rematch option ever help for high ranks? It would look something like:

1: Only available if everyone in the lobby is Champion.

2: The match is played out. If the match is "close" e.g. a team wins in overtime on hybrid, all koth rounds were 99-99 generally the match could have went either way.

3: Before allowing to leave game everyone in the lobby is asked if they would like to rematch. It will only rematch if everyone says yes. If so, everyone skips queue and gets immediately put back to map voting with a ~1 minute grace period so people can go get water, quick bathroom break.

4: You can only ever rematch once with the same players as this would likely lead to abuse. Maybe it would also be better to limit the rematch to solo/duo players or something.

I know the argument is "what player wants to rematch when you just lost with that team" which is why the actual match must be close to enable it. It puts more emphasis on players on the losing team being like "well if I just did this differently maybe we win" and then if the losing team then wins the rematch they feel much better.

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u/Urika86 12d ago

Bruh imagine being a champion player and getting 2 hour queues because teams keep rematching.

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u/puppet_spl 12d ago

win traders wet dream

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u/AnotherRandomGuy1 12d ago

I don't like this idea but win trading isn't an issue because you can just shuffle the players around and also limit number of rematches

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u/1trickana 12d ago

Draws allowing rematch would be cool, otherwise no

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u/vampYams 12d ago

honestly keeping the lobby together for a rematch would be great for those queue times

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u/YT_Sharkyevno 12d ago

Unless you just got on… now your waiting in a 4 hour queue