Best Of

I'm a bit bored this morning as two of my games haven't started and the two that I am actively playing in the first knockouts have probably already done enough to get through to knockout 2. So I'm passing the time looking at my opponents' stats. I am finding it strange that my two new player accounts (both started in 2026) are grouped only with old player accounts:

Here the years of starting of the 18 opponents:

2013 x 6

2014 x 1

2019 x 3

2020 x 1

2022 x 3

2023 x 2

2024 x 2

So no players who started within the past twelve months, which is definitely not a random selection. Also there seems to be no correlation between these players' levels and how long they have been playing. Some are below level 1000 but played since 2013. I would like to speculate that these are occasional players which have provided enough data for King to predict their behaviours and so my guess is that the app can provide my new player accounts with easier opponents by choosing these players as my opponents.

I have also noted that the "add friends from events" option is back in my games and that some but not all of the players on my current leaderboards are on that list for me to invite as friends already while I am playing against them.

Is anyone else seeing something similar? Or is it just a features for newbies?

Out of interest @Deal_One : Is this the same score you are seeing on your weekly contest right now (150)?

I assume that your opponents are stronger than mine because you crushed a lot more in the previous weeks.