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[Apex Matchmaking] Wanted to add a bit of context to some of the Apex Matchmaking fairness conversations happening recently. What we've been hearing 1. It's frustrating to have Diamonds and Challengers in the same game Response: Agree with this being a not ideal experience and it's an item to resolve when we can get to it. Only making Challenger queue times longer isn't something we can do right now without unintended consequences or negative tradeoffs on queue times/match quality We currently have a few higher priority things we're working on, but it's something we want to be able to do in the future 2. These massive LP Diff games are unfair Response: We currently believe that games that have Large LP diffs are ~fair, with the way we are matchmaking them rn. There are other factors we take into consideration as well like Duos, Autofill balance, etc. On average, we observe Apex+ teams have between a 49-51% chance to win anywhere from 0 LP diff between teams to 2000 LP diff. This is because we're matchmaking on MMR, not LP currently. However, these large LP diffs can be pretty confronting to look at and make the match look unfair. 95% of games fall under 1500 LP diff between teams, 86% under 1000LP, 65% under 500LP. We have more work to do here to make matches both be fair and look fair. I've attached 2 examples of random games with these diffs. Sometimes there are low rank alt accounts that are actually super strong players that actually have very high ratings (and are often duoing). Other times (the vast majority), the MMR of the teams are fair, but their LP values are desynced for a variety of reasons (climb timing, etc.) There are of course games where there's a lopsided LP diff and the team with higher LP wins, but it happens as often as the lower LP team winning.

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Percentage of white population in Germany: 🇩🇪 2000 ⟶ 95.2% 🇩🇪 2001 ⟶ 94.9% 🇩🇪 2002 ⟶ 94.6% 🇩🇪 2003 ⟶ 94.2% 🇩🇪 2004 ⟶ 93.8% 🇩🇪 2005 ⟶ 93.4% 🇩🇪 2006 ⟶ 93.0% 🇩🇪 2007 ⟶ 92.6% 🇩🇪 2008 ⟶ 92.1% 🇩🇪 2009 ⟶ 91.6% 🇩🇪 2010 ⟶ 91.1% 🇩🇪 2011 ⟶ 90.6% 🇩🇪 2012 ⟶ 90.1% 🇩🇪 2013 ⟶ 89.6% 🇩🇪 2014 ⟶ 89.1% 🇩🇪 2015 ⟶ 88.5% 🇩🇪 2016 ⟶ 87.9% 🇩🇪 2017 ⟶ 87.3% 🇩🇪 2018 ⟶ 86.7% 🇩🇪 2019 ⟶ 86.1% 🇩🇪 2020 ⟶ 85.5% 🇩🇪 2021 ⟶ 84.9% 🇩🇪 2022 ⟶ 84.3% 🇩🇪 2023 ⟶ 83.7% 🇩🇪 2024 ⟶ 83% 🇩🇪 2025 ⟶ 82%

Am 8. Mai 1945 kam mein Großvater nach tagelanger Flucht und brutaler Vertreibung aus Schlesien in Petersdorf (Sudetenland) an. Die Russen und Tschechen standen da, mit ihren MPs im Anschlag und plünderten und vergewaltigten alles, was nicht niet und nagelfest war.

He died with 200 children in a gas chamber, holding their hands until the end. He was a father to 200 souls who had no one else in the world. As the soldiers shouted and the world collapsed into madness, he looked at his children and smiled, telling them not to be afraid because they were going on a trip together. Janusz Korczak was a famous doctor and a brave Polish military officer who spent his entire life proving that children are the most important people on Earth. This wasn’t just a job for him—it was his life’s mission. In 1912, he founded a very special place called the Orphans’ Home in Warsaw, designed specifically for children who had lost their parents and had nobody else to protect them. He didn’t just look after their health; he respected them as complete human beings with deep feelings and big dreams. He even created a “Children’s Republic” inside the home, where the orphans had their own small government and even their own court to settle arguments fairly. To him, every child was a “precious gift” and a “creative flame” that adults were lucky enough to protect. He lived by one simple, powerful rule: you haven’t done enough for a child until you have done everything you possibly can. Because he lived by that rule, his responsibility grew even heavier when World War II began. When the Nazi occupation forced the Jewish population into the walled-off Warsaw Ghetto, Korczak moved all 200 of his children there to keep them together. In a place filled with hunger and disease, he became their father figure, their doctor, and their only shield. He spent every day begging for food and medicine just to keep them alive. Because Korczak was so famous and respected, he was offered several chances to escape to the “safe” side of the city and hide. He refused every single time. He knew that if he abandoned those 200 children to save his own life, everything he had ever taught about loyalty and love would be a lie. He stayed because a father does not leave his children when the storm arrives. The day they were taken away to the death camps, the streets witnessed something that looked more like a happy school parade than a march to a tragedy. Korczak wanted to protect the children’s hearts from the terrifying truth, so he told them they were finally going on a trip to the countryside. He had them wash their faces and dress in their very best clothes. They marched through the ghetto singing songs and carrying a bright green flag. Korczak walked at the very front of the line, standing tall in his military doctor’s uniform, carrying the two smallest children in his arms while the others clung to his pockets to stay close. Even the enemy soldiers watching them at the train station were moved to silence by the sight of such incredible dignity. When a soldier recognized him and offered him one last chance to walk away, Korczak didn’t even hesitate. “You do not understand,” he told the officer. “The children are not just my work. They are my life. I will not leave them now.” In the end, he followed his children all the way into the dark gas chambers of Treblinka. He stayed true to his word until his very last breath, holding their hands so they wouldn’t be afraid of the dark. When the chambers were opened later, they found him still leaning forward, surrounded by the sea of children who had huddled close to him for safety in their final moments. Janusz Korczak was a man who had every excuse to run, every reason to save himself, and every opportunity to look away, yet he chose to stand in the fire so his children wouldn’t have to stand there alone.