Okay kid, I'll make it even more simple for you You aren't just being matched with 5 other people for a team You're being matched with everyone that is in the same skill bracket as you. Also, latency is affected by individual internet speeds. Yes it does change depending on who hosts, but bungie can look at everyone's Internet and form brackets based off of those speeds; you'd have a bracket for red,yellow and green bars. Once again Let's say you have 100 people in the que 50 don't have the same connection strength as you, so they are out of match making for you That leaves 50 Of that remaining 50 only 25 are in the same skill bracket as you So overall that leaves 25 persons for you to match with for a game that have the same skill rating and connection strength. In-game those numbers are [i]much[/i] greater in terms of match making population So if you don't get it now, I can't help you And neither could your pre school math teacher