What matters in Call of Duty matchmaking.
What matters in Call of Duty matchmaking.
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How skill matters in Call of Duty multiplayer matchmaking | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 18 min

Activision has been taking deep dives into its matchmaking process for Call of Duty multiplayer in an effort to enable players to understand why they end up in the matches they do.

In April, Activision released a white paper that focused on how ping times (or speed of your connection) matters in matchmaking. And today it’s dropping another white paper into how skill matters in core multiplayer matchmaking.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.