It seems to me like something changed in the last several months where the pairing algorithm in Arena tournaments really tries to avoid pairing high-rated players against significantly-lower-rated players. This keeps leading to tournaments where <1000 players are winning the arenas with significant scores despite never playing the stronger players, and strong players never get a chance to put an end to the lower-rated players' winning streaks. Is this intentional?
Arenas were always that way. Players are paired with players of similar ratings.
It seems to me like something changed in the last several months where the pairing algorithm in Arena tournaments really tries to avoid pairing high-rated players against significantly-lower-rated players. This keeps leading to tournaments where <1000 players are winning the arenas with significant scores despite never playing the stronger players, and strong players never get a chance to put an end to the lower-rated players' winning streaks. Is this intentional?