Couldn't fix the matchmaker with this update then?
"If a match of the same rank is not available, the system will gradually expand the acceptable range until it finds a match. This has a hard limit of 6 ranks above or below your rank. " Developer Update, September 2019.
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I'm guessing your rank was teetering between 8 and 9, so the system went ahead and pushed you into that match up with people 6 ranks ahead of you. Working as intended.
"Working as intended"
The rule dont apply if you are rank 16-20 "so that the new players can always find a game" which is dumb and runs so many games or makes me dodge so many lobbies with rank 20s