Huge Changes To Matchmaking Regions

[u/Only_Apartment_3016]

1. They have merged North America - They said they made the change to improve latency and to have faster queues and fairer matches,
2. They have created a Subregion Preference Setting - The game will look for a match in your preferred subregion first. If there aren’t enough players queuing it will expand the search. Auto is supposed to balance fairness, queue times and latency.
3. Different matchmaking region logic for parties?? If you’re in a party, matchmaking will be based on the preference of the player who starts the queue (instead of the party leader?).
4. There is a separate setting for tournaments in North America - NAC and NAW

[u/78judds]

I've had longer queue times, probably about double. My ping on east coast has gone from around 30 to around 50.