The population of iron banner is too low to successfully connect you to all regional players. It goes like this. Since the game can’t find enough regional players to match you with it”cuts corners,” and extends the radius of players to match with. It’ll continually extend it too the point where it could match you with anyone in the world. This will typically also extend load times the farther it extends the radius. Ironically, both reasons for there to be cbmm now don’t exist. Continually laggy games with foreign connections, longer loading times, and generally much greater skill gap as the pvp population continues to drop rapidly. When next season starts, pvp population will rise again, but it will not take long, maybe 4 weeks before the population problems become more apparent again. And in truth, this also happens with sbmm, but the higher-mid tier leave instead. The few skilled players that remain after the population drops low enough, will be able to again stomp the lower tier, since like before, the game is forced to cut corners on skill gap to match players as fast as possible. If pvp is ever going to be healthy, it needs to get SIGNIFICANTLY more people to play it of ALL skill tiers.