A voice was channeled through me that said something along the lines of The serpent has awoken . Made me think of Kundalini for sure , and it was this bizarre mixture of feeling like entities had talked to me versus my higher self having been awoken . <| sep |> to be fair , the chance would be higher . in a strict SBMM system , that chance is 0 . worst case scenario it ' ll just keep you both in orbit forever , rather than making you play each other . in a CBMM system that chance is low because of how uncommon extremely good players are , but it is not 0 . then out of however many times you bump into a crucible god , half of those times they ' ll end up on your team anyway . unless you yourself are a crucible god , then they ' ll generally end up on the other team to counter youso it would increase the likelihood of you having stronger opponents , but it equally increases the likelihood of you having stronger teammates , so the games stay fair . this is gonna sound like me tanking my own argument here but whatever i believe in laying out the facts . depending on where you are in the bell curve , you may not need CBMM . if you ' re average enough , then the game might be able to find equal skill players without having to sacrifice connection . the real irony here is that if you ' re average , SBMM benefits you very little . it only ever helps shit tier players . and even then , not by much for all the reasons i laid out above . so you get a lot of average players going what ' s the big deal , still works fine for me . but let me share a brief version of my own story . i started out pretty average like everybody else . maybe a little below average , a game like this there ' s a real commit to win factor so i think all new players just kinda suck . whereas in a game like halo or doom where you don ' t need to unlock gear , a new player could theoretically compete . but i toughed it out . i toughed it out through the suros meta , the thorn meta , the pulse rifle meta , the shotgun meta , the sniper meta . i learned . i geared up . i put real thought into my crucible builds . i improved . at my peak i got up to a 1 . 6 KD over the course of that months iron banner . then i quit crucible because it started to suck . think of the laggiest game you ' ve ever been in . now that ' s every round . then when i came back with ROI I was rusty , but my skill based matchmaking hadn ' t decayed at all . so now my games were laggy as they ' d ever been , and i had no business being in them to begin with skillwise . i quit crucible again . i still raid , but i ' m not playing this crucible . it is pure distilled antifun . so yah , there you go kids . if you work hard and apply yourself , you too can have bungie piss in your mouth .