I know many people have experienced rated matches being bugged out, like in this example:


Now that was actually the second game we had against that team, first one also didn't count. (same scoreboard error), so when we lost again, I joked "You won't be getting any points anyways", to which they replied "why should we get points for skirmish?" to which I replied (visible) "we signed up for a rated game" and they replied that they did not.

I'm not quite sure if this warrants its own thread but imho it is a huge issue. Out of 12 games today, 4 were not counted and this isn't a particular unlucky day for us.

Did the GM also say that it's intended that the 0 point game doesn't even count in the statistic?

Yes there is the possibility of getting 0 rating if the rating disparity is big enough, and its also true that it won't count in the stats. Don't know if the second part is intended or not.

On the same note, on some 0 rating games the scorescreen can bug out, showing that your team loses 17k rating as the lowest integral or somesuch (comp sci friend mentioned this).

I had this happen twice after the most recent patch (both on that patch day). I believe it is an error with the matchmaking system. Also the chances of facing a team you'd get 0 points from would seem phenomenally low, wouldn't that require something like a 2000+ team facing a 1000 rated team for it to not be worth even one point?

This is a known exploit that many top teams do. They manage to bug out the system to make it think that its a skirmish when it was a rated game. It is possible to do this on command while inside the game. I think that it relates to the disconnection = no loss change they made to the arenas.

We've had it happen, even where we've faced people from multiple servers. It said we recieved points and we got nothing. I reported it, and the gm told me that there was an issue where points weren't showing up on your screen, and we actually got the points. We didn't.

The worst part here is how GMs straight up lie to us

Have you observed any teams doing that repeatedly? This doesn't appear to be related to what happened in our case

I don't think they lie intentionally, they just have no idea whats going on so they give you the best answer they possibly can without saying "I don't know." This sounds like a pretty serious issue though...

The 2 GMs I talked to seemed to have no idea what was going on, so I stopped pressing the issue.

I saw some anomalys on my alt hunters 3v3 this past weekend. We had back to back games which we won, but got zero points. Then won another like 2 games later where the scoreboard read something like (rating gain +1894890504). Sadly, we didnt get that much rating. Nor, did we wind up having any points refunded for the games that scored out as zero. FWIW, the armory was also borked during that time, so I am guessing it was somehow related.

Armory links?