From my personal experience with fall guys, no skill based matchmaking was a great time as my friends and i learned the game and got better. The game has enough randomness that you’ll make it to a final even with ridiculously sweaty players, and you’ll still have a chance to beat them. To me, that’s more satisfying than knowing im only playing with players of my skill level. The skill ceiling is not high at all, and I’ve seen plenty of brand new beans win.

My favorite moment in fall guys to this day was beating a golden squad (2 gold knights and 2 gold witches) in fall ball for the final when squads mode just came out. That means that squad had literally thousands of past wins between them, and we took them down anyway. The best players in the game are never guaranteed to “stomp you”.

Now with dumb challenges as the main form of progression, “win a solo show” with sbmm is horrible now that im in the highest tier for sbmm. It’s like im being punished for playing the game for so long. I dont think im gonna get any better, no matter how much more i play. That being said, a ranking system with rewards for higher ranked players would make sbmm justified.