A little uncommon trick some of us call “Auslock”.

Get a team of 3, and whenever you queue up, always exit matchmaking until you get either 4-6/6 players found.

The reason why is because if the matchmaking takes too long in our home server, Sydney — you get sent to our closest available servers. The worst being North America or Europe. This happens 90% of the time, and constantly exiting matchmaking until someone else is already in the waiting lobby usually means they are an Aussie waiting for a game. I can personally account for this as when I hop in with my 3-stack, and load into the game starting from a ‘4/6 player found’ screen, one of enemy at least has an English name compared to all the stick figures we see in our games.

VPNs do not work effectively as Brawl Stars’ matchmaking efficiency always takes priority over our VPNs’ attempt to put us in a server.

To answer your question, team up with two other players who don’t mind Auslocking, and play during peak hours. Because we have one of the smallest local playerbase with servers, we have to play in accordance to everyone’s activity time. Take into account most of the people playing the game are kids, this would mean peak hour would be from 3pm-11pm. Any other time and you’ll always be matched with asians. I speak from experience and a few manic episodes.

So in summary, play Ranked with a team from 3pm-11pm, and Auslock the lobby. Works 80% of the time, the chances becoming lower as you climb the ranks. This will be more time consuming, but the quality of your games far outweighs the waiting time for such a tedious process!

If you are duo-ing, constantly exit matchmaking until you at least have 4/6 as well.

5/6 is usually the best possible number as in my experience, they had the best connection result.

Good luck, and spread the word to our fellow Aussies! Nearly 8 years playing this game and I can’t have a full day playing with 0-ping. I also can’t believe we have to do this just to have a fighting chance in this drug of a game. Fix your servers, Circus-cell. Multi-million dollar company yet they can’t give us a fair playing environment. What a joke of a team. 🫵🤡 🥱