Impossible to escape gold.

[GordonGeeko]

Funny considering i usually do queues around this time and roulettes too!
Like okay, it might not be completely dead as I said, but by miles more dead than bronze-gold

Since, as i said, i legit did never have to wait 5 minutes to get ANY pvp queue pop before at this time i posted my queue, i'm not making this up, there's a lot going on in pvp at these times, too. The MOMENT i hit platinum, it went from 5 minutes to 30 minutes (and it never popped at any time, i might be unlucky).

I will check later, it might be because of savage and it might be more than usual because it is friday, but i will still check it!

Sure, let me know later today.

I have not played much Platinum games, I pretty much stopped for now when I reached platinum to focus on my island stuff (lol), so I can't confirm exactly what the matchmaking at platinum looks like. All I know for now is that it can match you with Gold and Diamond.

But considering that Gold could match you with Unranked, Bronze , Silver, other Gold and Platinum players and it's early in the season with a lot of people still trying to get out of lower ranks, I would expect Platinum games to not be as frequent as in Gold at this time. But not as frequent doesn't mean dead. With demotion from Crystal up to potentially Platinum, I would expect those queues to stay active at prime hours for a long time.

You're comparing matchmaking that could match you with people from 4 to 5 different tiers of players vs one that can match you with probably only 3 tiers. Where 2 of those 3 tiers of players need to go through Gold first, which not all of them can, as evidenced in this thread. Of course it will be slower, it's like a funnel.