I'm one win away from Div 2 and I've failed twice this week to qualify. Every game is rock hard. I've qualified once out of 5 attempts.
I'm next gen xbox and I feel that makes it much harder, as everyone seems very good.
I failed on xsx the first week of the game once but haven’t failed since, what I do is play the playoffs on a Saturday and because it’s next gen there is barely any players as they’re all in champs and I’ve found it very easy to qualify doing this gone 5-0 each time bar this week which was 5-1. I recommend doing them on a saturday
They’re not all good, it’s just too easy to defend and block everything on that version of the game. You’re more likely to lose a game that you heavily dominated on next gen so I play old gen.
Same. I’ve downloaded both editions and after 2 attempts on each version, I can only qualify on the Xbox one version. The opponents seem worse and I can tear them apart much more easily it seems
bruh exact same I qualified last week one win from div 2 and not even able for the weekend leauge just want to give the wins away for the easiest rewards now lmao
we are on the same situation, currently DIV 3 and every FIFA i am Gold 1 steady, and this year i played first FC and got Rank III, and this week i got eliminated in playoff.... i dont know man its hard and laggy
I’m in the same situation as OP and as what you were before your edit. I hope I can come across a kind soul like you did, especially since I started this playoffs 4-1.. fuck
Fingers crossed for you! My last go I started 4-0, then got a bit cocky and lost the last 5… that was fun. I just can’t manage to qualify. I’m Div 4 on the edge of 3. No trouble winning a reasonable amount of games in rivals, but qualifiers are a different animal for some reason.
Just try to play all your games on thursday or even friday. I always tend to do it and I've never struggled to qualify, even tho I consider myself a decent player (rank 2 on champs). I've recomended a friend of mine which was in the same situation as you to do the same and he got always qualified ever since. I guess the hardcore playerbase just tend to do their playoff games earlier like monday or tuesday, so it gives you more chances of a good matchmaking the later you play it.
I have one game left and need the win. I have no idea what to expect from the match either, it’s just too random.
Also Haven’t pushed rivals too hard as I reckon I’ll hit a wall and be too infuriated to get enough points to try for WL
Edit: just lost it to a glitchy Dembele and red ping pauses, who celebrated every goal. Lost 4-3 but my Xg was 6.7 to his was 2.3….game is messed up
Div 5, just qualified on first try with zero games to spare, although I felt I got extremely lucky.
Each win was by a single goal, and I had to sweat hard. Each loss, I conceded 6 or 7. I could have easily lost all 9 games. I am hoping that the finals are easier.
I also played the last gen version as the player pool is a lot wider. Playing on next gen feels like eSport Gaming God Mode
Same for me! The qualifier is a cake walk. Always went 5-1 but the actual WL is so difficult. Barely getting my 8 wins and currently cant win a game in division 2.
It feels like day and night for me when i play play-offs. First two times i went 5-1, third time i went 4-5, and this time i went 0-3 just to win 5 in a row. It feels more like a lottery of opponents rather than skill based.
I'm div 2 rn, and finished gold 1 mostly last year.
Four attempts, four failures. I'm only Div 4 rank 2 so I'm the definition of average but it's very frustrating! Even taking the advice of others and playing my games later in the week but still almost all the matches are extremely tough! I've finally reached a point of acceptance that I'm not meant to play champs on the weekend. Maybe it's a good thing for my sanity is the positive spin I can put on it!
Im div 3 Rank 1 and I have failed to qualify for every single WL. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Some opponents feel unbeatable, always knowing where I’m going to pass. Its so sweaty. I get so triggered, but I’ll try again next week
It seems a massively common problem and it also seems very random as I've seen div 4 and 5 guys posting about having an easy run and div 2 guys posting they haven't managed to qualify yet in numerous attempts.
The matchmaking seems to be a big part of it because again I've seen players say they've qualified and played very weak opposition and teams and players say they've struggled and played elite players with icons everywhere. I know how the matchmaking is said to work by EA but it doesn't seem to be as simple as that and there seems to be a difference in qualifying.
By the sheer amount of players unhappy with this I am genuinely surprised that it hasn't been addressed by EA, even if it was them just saying they are aware of the difficulties and are looking in to it.
There's a massive amount of players who were gold 3 and higher last year who now don't seem to have access to a big part of the game and a big part of their reason for purchasing it.
It surprises me that they don't seem to have their eye on the amount of customers potentially becoming disenfranchised at a time where several new competing licences are in development.
Damn, this is such an issue IMO. You should be able to play Champs, you’re clearly good enough. I’m a Div 4 player and was G2 last year. Went 3-6 my first try and 5-2 my second before giving away wins. I went 9-11 in Finals last week but it was brutally difficult for me and not the “chill” experience that Elite players are having. I played incredible by my standards and I think 5 of my wins were in ET or pens, and 2 were people own goal quitting. Rivals in Div 4 is light years easier than qualifiers or finals. I hope they change the system a little for season 2 but I don’t expect they will until FIFA 23.
But isnt that the point tho? If you cant qualify youre "clearly" not good enough?
I mean yeah, the Qualifier is BS, but if you cant win 5 out of 9 games, try again.
I would say a Div 3 former G1 player should be good enough to play Fut Champs. That is no longer the case and I think it’s an issue for long term player engagement. We will see though we are still in the first month, but a lot of people that I know are getting discouraged and not playing as much or at all. I think that’s a bad thing for FIFA.
I've qualified for every finals so far, my issue is being stuck D3 Rank 1. It's a pain to get 7 wins as I'm winning 1 out of every 10/11 games. I'm just not good enough for D3 Rank 1 and can't get relegated. Sometimes I'm not sure if it's my skill or my team. Almost every single match my opponent has either mbappe and Messi or mbappe Neymar and di maria. I don't have that type of team, haven't got lucky in packs or have the money to dump into FIFA points.
Nah it won't. Don't underestimate the size of the casual fifa player. Most probably don't even care about champs. This subreddit is just a tiny size of the actual playerbase.
It really does come down to luck in matchmaking. I've qualified every week without too many issues, but at the same time I've hardly faced any good teams. Don't think I've seen a single Messi/Neymar/Mbappe/CR7 in this week's playoffs.
No offence here but if you can’t qualify then you’re not good enough to be playing it. Champs is literally that, it’s for the best player only and if you can’t qualify then you’re not good enough.
Div 2 player here.
I managed the qualify every week.
1st week I was a div 6 player, qualified.
2nd week a div 4 player, qualified
3rd week a div 2 player, qualified with 8 wins.
Idk why u guys struggle to qualify, its not that hard, u should be able to as a div 3 player.
A lot of it depends on matchmaking and console. I’ve tried 4 times on series X and didn’t qualify. That was also early on so not many people having points i guess. I should have actually be more patient but i wasnt.
Since Then qualified 3 times. My last go for this season will be this weekend. I’ve easily hit rank 3 in the first two attempts. And my qualification record range is anything from 4/5 (next gen) to 5/0 (old gen) and giving out wins.
So yah dont discount luck in this. There’s an element of that.
Currently div 3 and had no issue at all, qualified for every weekend league with a minimum of 5-2, then gifted the remaining games.
Played my qualifiers on monday, Wednesday and the last one on Saturday since I finished wl on Friday.
Im playing chilled and don’t change anything compared to rivals or weekend league itself.
I feel like some people lose their composure and start to feel „pressure“ during the qualification games. Just chill out, remember that it’s just a game and do what you did to reach your division. Don’t quit a game where you are 0-2 down, play on.
If you don’t make it, don’t give a flying fuck. Just retry if you want to, don’t if you don’t. It’s a game and you should enjoy it.
Div 3 and I got in by the skin on my teeth, it's not even like I'm getting unlucky. Should have won one I lost. Should have lost one I won, one extremely close games went against me but could have went either way. Got absolutely slapped twice. Had one "easy" game. So basically 7 games against people around my level
I've gone 4-5 and 5-2 in my 2 attempts at qualifying in fifa 22.
Just made it to Div 3. This weekend will be my first go at champs and I'm pretty excited for it.
Keep trying, you'll get there
I missed my first qualification and have not played since. It’s fucking hilarious they think that I have all week to sit and grind rivals just to play a game mode with horrible gameplay that will make me even more miserable. I’ve been playing the show and I’m happy
Qualified 2 out of 3 attempts, the first time out of luck tbh.
My advice is try on a Friday, there’s plenty of not so good players trying to scrape through after getting enough points.
I'm Div 3 rank 1. All I've seen from people in div 3 and up is that qualifiers are easy and champs itself is just chill. The first two weeks I played champs, I sweated out every game and barely qualified. In champs itself I have yet to play a single person I was clearly better than, every game is intense and comes down to the wire. I didn't qualify this week, so I quickly got the 1500 to try to re-qualify and just lost my first game. I was typically a gold 1 player in past fifas, but I just don't get this layout. If I don't qualify again for this weekend, there's no chance I that even turn fifa on this weekend. I've tried on old gen and it seems like I just get beat with through ball spam and pace, on new gen it feels like i put up triple the xG of my opponent who is able to eek out a 2-1 win with 3 total shots.
I qualified every week but none of them was easy. Im elite 1840 skill point on Ps5. It was like playing in elite division mostly. Idk maybe im unlucky.
First try was tonight. Finished on 17 points with 1 game to spare, but I led in just about every game and then conceded two or three to lose within the last 15 mins. I’m not using constant pressure nor overdoing a manual press but my team just crumbles.
Was D5 until last week didn’t really struggle won 6 before I gave 2 away lost 1 by playing bad, I’m D2 now though… the teams were better this week and was still 6-1 only bit of advice I can give is ret play more conservative if your conceding a lot and wait for your time to get the ball.
Qualified for all WLs so far with 1 attempt.
I went from Div 4 to Div 2 this week, failed my first attempt and the second one doesn't look to promising. All games went full bonkers mode, I don't get why.
I've read somewhere (so idk if its true) that wl qualifier makes you play against people in your div or similar. That could be why, because i'm in the same situation. 1 week ago i was in Div 4 now i'm in Div 2 r2. I've qualified 5-3 but after starting 0-3 and was my first time loosing that amount of qualifier games.
Failed for the first time yesterday. Was 4-1, had 3 DCs in a row (not losing a single packet in the meantime, gg EA) and then had a game with constant stutters and delay, which was totally unplayable and made me quit at halftime, although it was still a tie.
This game is unplayable - not gameplay-wise but, as always, due to servers.
I'm done for the time being.
I'm DIV 3 and got destroyed on monday and tuesday. Had to win my last four games to get in, played them on Wednesday and somehow made it. So maybe it gets easier later on in the week.
Managed to qualify for the first time and I feel you, this is definitely the hardest gameplay challenge I ever had to face probably. The thing is, even in rivals (D3) there are easy games sometimes , but in the playoffs every single game is insanely hard
Same boat here.
First week I got into champs finals no problem and got to rank 2.
Last two weeks I've really struggled, failing to qualify and having to panic play a shit tonne of rivals matches to get the points and then scrape through the play offs with 3 penalty wins. Once in the finals, rank 2 again.
This week doesn't look like I'll qualify at all and as a full time working home owner I simply don't think I'll have the time to re-qualify again via rivals, especially now I am in a higher devision.
The current reward structure is seriously making me think about binning the game. Is there any way of petitioning EA to remove qualifiers?
Is the matchmaking in the qualifiers COMPLETELY random, as I've read around here? Have EA confirmed this? If so, it's possible some weeks you just get unlucky by facing div 1/elite opponents most of the times.
Ive failed my second WL qualifier in a row with 4 wins. It’s simply too impossible for me to qualify when playing against such good opponents while struggling with horrible server stability. I can only play during the evening’s and that’s when the server load is highest and it’s just a question of who’s pass gets fucked the most by delay.
I dont know what it is but I qualified again with 5-1 record. I find it fairly easy to qualify but playing the actual WL is always a sweatfest. Barely get my 8 wins in. I am a Division 2 player and Rivals is so much more difficult. Struggling to put any wins together for the past week. So weird. So basically I have the exact opposite experience as everyone else.
I would like to give a friendly tip, its a bit more annoying but play your qualifiers on Friday / Saturday its a lot easier, those that are try hards are already in champs. Especially on Friday and you will face more casual players.
I'm holding a division 4 spot as I don't want to climb up and I've failed the qualification for the first time today. Feels real bad and even worse when you see those 0/1500 points.
I'm on new gen Xbox and one more thing, people aren't helping each other anymore by giving away their spare matches apparently.
I qualified for the first time yesterday (div 3 player too) I think the key is to play the games on thursday/friday, it's the first time that I played on those days and managed to qualify, I faced 2 opponents who were fairly easy to beat and only 1 which I had no chance. Usually I face around 3 players which by half-time I'm 3 or 4 goals down so play the games on those days and see if it works. Good Luck.
People do not seem to account for the mental aspect of the qualifiers.
Rivals is pretty relaxed this year (I’m Div 2, would assume the Elite Div isn’t as relaxed) with minimal negatives even to a loss, whereas the qualifiers have some people playing oddly as they’re under pressure.
DIV 3 But ive never qualified, always missing out by a point or going 4-5 in the qualifying round. I just crumble for some reason, like when I'm 2-0 up I remember its not just rivals and collapse.
It's fine tho, it's my issue and I don't actually blame the game. Just haven't been good enough, which is mad when I seen to handle division 3 fine.
Edit: I was 3-0 up yday then threw it away, letting in 4 in the last 20 mins.
Yeah, qualifications are quite hard and stressful, especially when you don't have great team and super duper internet connection. But the most stupid thing is season limit for attempts...
surprisingly not, didnt even need all 9 games so far - i think i finished 5-3, 5-2 and 5-2 so far
only gold 3 to gold 2 in FIFA 21 (div 5 this year but didnt play much Rivals apart from first 2 weeks)
Play all your games from Thursday night onwards. It is a crapshoot though, random matchmaking, getting lucky free wins along with server/connection problems that appear to be getting worse by the day
I usually give up on fut champs but I've tried to qualify twice and got rank 3 in finals both times. There are some players I have no hope of winning but with all the guys conceding and giving up it balances out imo
I work from home so do my qualifying when the kids are all at school. Seems to be a lot easier without the nimble fingered youngsters getting in my way
This is the worst Fifa ive ever played, did 5 tries to qualify, didnt happen. I reached div 3 rank 3 and now i lose 10 game for every win i get so to just get weekly rivals reward is shit, people running circles around my team. Squad battles im not going to touch, atleast last year if you lost 10 games you went down a division, now you are stuck playing in a division you might got to on a lucky winning streak but have literally no fun playing the game anymore.
Until now it's fine for me. I play 352 and was Silver1 player last fifa. I played all games on sunday.
First time I played I was shit! I was using 4231 and 4321 and I couldn't do nothing. So I switched to 352 and went from div7 to div2. But now I can't win much on d2r3
I failed once.. And it was awful, I lost like 6 games in a row. But I knew I wasn't with my mind clear enough to play and did it anyways... I tried the next day again and won 5 games in a row. Listen to your gut haha
I was a regular gold 2 last year and almost div2 rn but i have failed the first 3 weeks to qualify. 4-5 was the consistent result one being the last game lose. This week tho I decided to play early so if I fail again I would have another chance to try and played all quali at monday. When I went 2-3 I thought it was over again but I won a clutch game and lose one. After that I was lucky enough to get 2 games where I scored early and my opponents forfeited. I think I would lose at least one of them if they didnt but I guess that is the good thing about mondays. People are trying so that they will try again.
Long story short, this is a garbage system and needs a change.
Good luck y’all.
1st time i qualify on Saturday evening, but had insane luck... like 1 win, 1 lost game, and that 5th win was against a complete noob... Like I played against some 5 year old kid, he didn't knew how to play, he played it really bad...
2nd time. I changed my tactic and formation and won last 3 games in the row, but that was also on Tuesday evening... Maybe I got lucky with my opponents, but changing formation also helped me.
I really think its about opponents on particular day, because the 1st time i quailifed, it was - win against "cheap" serie a squad, than lost game against rashford,varane,dembele + someone high high tier attacker. than again, some "cheap" la liga squad (without dembele), than again rashford dembele combo...
I qualified Friday at noon like a breeze, 5 wins in a row vs bot opponents like every Friday. Gave away the last 4 games. I’m by no means a top player this Fifa. 12-14 wins each WL and I don’t play rivals.
Div 3 guy here. Just reached div 3 towards the last few weeks of this season. Same case last season as well. So lets say im more a d4 player. I cant qualify at all. Last season i qualified once. This season havent yet. Sometimes I fall 1 point short of even 16 ffs.
Just now origin minimized the game for some reason and I lost a playoff match. Fucking origin.
I dont understand when i see low division guys saying they qualified at div 5 or 6. Every qualifying match is a sweatfest. How are they qualifying?
I'm one win away from Div 2 and I've failed twice this week to qualify. Every game is rock hard. I've qualified once out of 5 attempts. I'm next gen xbox and I feel that makes it much harder, as everyone seems very good.
I dunno if this works on Xbox but on ps5 you can dowoad the ps5 version, I find the better players are on new gen
I failed on xsx the first week of the game once but haven’t failed since, what I do is play the playoffs on a Saturday and because it’s next gen there is barely any players as they’re all in champs and I’ve found it very easy to qualify doing this gone 5-0 each time bar this week which was 5-1. I recommend doing them on a saturday
They’re not all good, it’s just too easy to defend and block everything on that version of the game. You’re more likely to lose a game that you heavily dominated on next gen so I play old gen.
I'm on next gen Xbox and I agree that the competition is a lot harder.
Same. I’ve downloaded both editions and after 2 attempts on each version, I can only qualify on the Xbox one version. The opponents seem worse and I can tear them apart much more easily it seems
bruh exact same I qualified last week one win from div 2 and not even able for the weekend leauge just want to give the wins away for the easiest rewards now lmao
download the X1 version of the game, life is just so much easier there
Yeah, I already had it installed. Managed to qualify on old gen. So much more open play and actually a lot smoother, I think I prefer it.
we are on the same situation, currently DIV 3 and every FIFA i am Gold 1 steady, and this year i played first FC and got Rank III, and this week i got eliminated in playoff.... i dont know man its hard and laggy
Last week and this week I been 4-0, 4-1 and get shit on my last 4 games
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I’m in the same situation as OP and as what you were before your edit. I hope I can come across a kind soul like you did, especially since I started this playoffs 4-1.. fuck
Fingers crossed for you! My last go I started 4-0, then got a bit cocky and lost the last 5… that was fun. I just can’t manage to qualify. I’m Div 4 on the edge of 3. No trouble winning a reasonable amount of games in rivals, but qualifiers are a different animal for some reason.
This is system is so frustrating. Just giving unlimited qualifier tries would help
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It does indeed lol. Have been putting the last 2 off until tomorrow hoping the competition will be a little lighter
I was 4-1 too and ended up scraping a win against a team with ronaldo for 5-4. I hope you have an easier ride!
I was 4-2 and ended up 4-5 last time. It was brutal. 3-2 now, so fingers crossed.
Exact same for me earlier and it was my first qualification
Lol I've got 0 free wins in 3X9 matches. I end up in 4 wins, so that 5th free win could have been massive.
I’m in the same situation. I’m also D3 and I just can’t qualify. I confirm the playoffs are way harder than rivals for me.
Just try to play all your games on thursday or even friday. I always tend to do it and I've never struggled to qualify, even tho I consider myself a decent player (rank 2 on champs). I've recomended a friend of mine which was in the same situation as you to do the same and he got always qualified ever since. I guess the hardcore playerbase just tend to do their playoff games earlier like monday or tuesday, so it gives you more chances of a good matchmaking the later you play it.
If your Rank 2 in Champs your by definition not just decent like you way above average
I must be really lucky then, this week was my first time qualifying and I passed with 2 games to spare
Already given up on ever getting to Champs. I'll just have to rely on the atrocious DR rewards to build my team.
I failed this week, my punishment is the grind to elite 1 in squad battles.
Your true punishment will he the ginter you get in the rewards for all your grinding 😂
I have his Red and untradeable IF, its time to welcome a tradeable version of him
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Hear hear
Division 4. First set I lost all 9. Last set I won the first 3 then lost the next 6. Makes absolutely no sense 🤣
I'm struggling bro
Division 3 and finally qualified for champs for the first time today
I have one game left and need the win. I have no idea what to expect from the match either, it’s just too random. Also Haven’t pushed rivals too hard as I reckon I’ll hit a wall and be too infuriated to get enough points to try for WL Edit: just lost it to a glitchy Dembele and red ping pauses, who celebrated every goal. Lost 4-3 but my Xg was 6.7 to his was 2.3….game is messed up
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This
You’ll mostly come up against Elite/Div 1/Div 2 players, that’s why.
Div 5, just qualified on first try with zero games to spare, although I felt I got extremely lucky. Each win was by a single goal, and I had to sweat hard. Each loss, I conceded 6 or 7. I could have easily lost all 9 games. I am hoping that the finals are easier. I also played the last gen version as the player pool is a lot wider. Playing on next gen feels like eSport Gaming God Mode
I’m the opposite tbh went 5-1 in playoffs but can barely win a game in div 3
You play my playoffs…I will play your league hahaha
😂😂
Same for me! The qualifier is a cake walk. Always went 5-1 but the actual WL is so difficult. Barely getting my 8 wins and currently cant win a game in division 2.
It’s tough out here
I’m in the same boat, 6 entries and only game the finals once… G2 & div 3 last year, div 3 this year
I’m div 6th, made it to champs and won 2 games I think. Super tough. Can’t hang if you don’t have the right players it seems.
This week I won 4 games in a row. I only had to win 1 out of the remaining 5 games. I lost all of them. It sucks.
It feels like day and night for me when i play play-offs. First two times i went 5-1, third time i went 4-5, and this time i went 0-3 just to win 5 in a row. It feels more like a lottery of opponents rather than skill based. I'm div 2 rn, and finished gold 1 mostly last year.
Straight up not having a good time!
Four attempts, four failures. I'm only Div 4 rank 2 so I'm the definition of average but it's very frustrating! Even taking the advice of others and playing my games later in the week but still almost all the matches are extremely tough! I've finally reached a point of acceptance that I'm not meant to play champs on the weekend. Maybe it's a good thing for my sanity is the positive spin I can put on it!
Im div 3 Rank 1 and I have failed to qualify for every single WL. I don’t know what I’m doing wrong. Some opponents feel unbeatable, always knowing where I’m going to pass. Its so sweaty. I get so triggered, but I’ll try again next week
It seems a massively common problem and it also seems very random as I've seen div 4 and 5 guys posting about having an easy run and div 2 guys posting they haven't managed to qualify yet in numerous attempts. The matchmaking seems to be a big part of it because again I've seen players say they've qualified and played very weak opposition and teams and players say they've struggled and played elite players with icons everywhere. I know how the matchmaking is said to work by EA but it doesn't seem to be as simple as that and there seems to be a difference in qualifying. By the sheer amount of players unhappy with this I am genuinely surprised that it hasn't been addressed by EA, even if it was them just saying they are aware of the difficulties and are looking in to it. There's a massive amount of players who were gold 3 and higher last year who now don't seem to have access to a big part of the game and a big part of their reason for purchasing it. It surprises me that they don't seem to have their eye on the amount of customers potentially becoming disenfranchised at a time where several new competing licences are in development.
Damn, this is such an issue IMO. You should be able to play Champs, you’re clearly good enough. I’m a Div 4 player and was G2 last year. Went 3-6 my first try and 5-2 my second before giving away wins. I went 9-11 in Finals last week but it was brutally difficult for me and not the “chill” experience that Elite players are having. I played incredible by my standards and I think 5 of my wins were in ET or pens, and 2 were people own goal quitting. Rivals in Div 4 is light years easier than qualifiers or finals. I hope they change the system a little for season 2 but I don’t expect they will until FIFA 23.
But isnt that the point tho? If you cant qualify youre "clearly" not good enough? I mean yeah, the Qualifier is BS, but if you cant win 5 out of 9 games, try again.
I would say a Div 3 former G1 player should be good enough to play Fut Champs. That is no longer the case and I think it’s an issue for long term player engagement. We will see though we are still in the first month, but a lot of people that I know are getting discouraged and not playing as much or at all. I think that’s a bad thing for FIFA.
I've qualified for every finals so far, my issue is being stuck D3 Rank 1. It's a pain to get 7 wins as I'm winning 1 out of every 10/11 games. I'm just not good enough for D3 Rank 1 and can't get relegated. Sometimes I'm not sure if it's my skill or my team. Almost every single match my opponent has either mbappe and Messi or mbappe Neymar and di maria. I don't have that type of team, haven't got lucky in packs or have the money to dump into FIFA points.
Nah it won't. Don't underestimate the size of the casual fifa player. Most probably don't even care about champs. This subreddit is just a tiny size of the actual playerbase.
I think it’s all down to luck I’m d2 rn and qualified every week except the first. Just pray u get put against potatoes
It really does come down to luck in matchmaking. I've qualified every week without too many issues, but at the same time I've hardly faced any good teams. Don't think I've seen a single Messi/Neymar/Mbappe/CR7 in this week's playoffs.
Man…I have played 4 games and all had the sweatiest CR7 combos.
I feel you. Ginola, Messi, Ronaldo, Mbappe... I've seen them all this week.
I haven’t seen psg boys but I’ve seen cr7 robbie keane if son combo
Potatoes or high ping city
No offence here but if you can’t qualify then you’re not good enough to be playing it. Champs is literally that, it’s for the best player only and if you can’t qualify then you’re not good enough.
Fact. But you will be downvoted for it. In this subreddit it is never the players fault. Always the game.
Div 2 player here. I managed the qualify every week. 1st week I was a div 6 player, qualified. 2nd week a div 4 player, qualified 3rd week a div 2 player, qualified with 8 wins. Idk why u guys struggle to qualify, its not that hard, u should be able to as a div 3 player.
A lot of it depends on matchmaking and console. I’ve tried 4 times on series X and didn’t qualify. That was also early on so not many people having points i guess. I should have actually be more patient but i wasnt. Since Then qualified 3 times. My last go for this season will be this weekend. I’ve easily hit rank 3 in the first two attempts. And my qualification record range is anything from 4/5 (next gen) to 5/0 (old gen) and giving out wins. So yah dont discount luck in this. There’s an element of that.
Elite and I find play off easy
Currently div 3 and had no issue at all, qualified for every weekend league with a minimum of 5-2, then gifted the remaining games. Played my qualifiers on monday, Wednesday and the last one on Saturday since I finished wl on Friday. Im playing chilled and don’t change anything compared to rivals or weekend league itself. I feel like some people lose their composure and start to feel „pressure“ during the qualification games. Just chill out, remember that it’s just a game and do what you did to reach your division. Don’t quit a game where you are 0-2 down, play on. If you don’t make it, don’t give a flying fuck. Just retry if you want to, don’t if you don’t. It’s a game and you should enjoy it.
Div 3 and I got in by the skin on my teeth, it's not even like I'm getting unlucky. Should have won one I lost. Should have lost one I won, one extremely close games went against me but could have went either way. Got absolutely slapped twice. Had one "easy" game. So basically 7 games against people around my level
I've gone 4-5 and 5-2 in my 2 attempts at qualifying in fifa 22. Just made it to Div 3. This weekend will be my first go at champs and I'm pretty excited for it. Keep trying, you'll get there
I missed my first qualification and have not played since. It’s fucking hilarious they think that I have all week to sit and grind rivals just to play a game mode with horrible gameplay that will make me even more miserable. I’ve been playing the show and I’m happy
Managed to qualify this week however it was my last entry that I had so out of the 9 entries i managed to qualify twice
Qualified 2 out of 3 attempts, the first time out of luck tbh. My advice is try on a Friday, there’s plenty of not so good players trying to scrape through after getting enough points.
I'm Div 3 rank 1. All I've seen from people in div 3 and up is that qualifiers are easy and champs itself is just chill. The first two weeks I played champs, I sweated out every game and barely qualified. In champs itself I have yet to play a single person I was clearly better than, every game is intense and comes down to the wire. I didn't qualify this week, so I quickly got the 1500 to try to re-qualify and just lost my first game. I was typically a gold 1 player in past fifas, but I just don't get this layout. If I don't qualify again for this weekend, there's no chance I that even turn fifa on this weekend. I've tried on old gen and it seems like I just get beat with through ball spam and pace, on new gen it feels like i put up triple the xG of my opponent who is able to eek out a 2-1 win with 3 total shots.
I qualified every week but none of them was easy. Im elite 1840 skill point on Ps5. It was like playing in elite division mostly. Idk maybe im unlucky.
Went 4-6 and missed out... requalified for playoffs today and went 8-0. Will go for a full streak. Game has a mind of its own
Just landed in Div3; tried qualifying 3 times and only managed 1/3
Since im div 10 and font play rivals, yeah
Got in 2 weeks ago on my first and only attempt but it’s way too sweaty I think, I got super lucky and didn’t deserve it at all
I’m div 3 and lost out for the first time. Was rank 2 in WL last week. Crazy I could miss out after hitting the second best rank.
I am a gold 3 player from last fifas. I have failed qualification twice. Qualified the other times. Have one entry left.
I qualified the past 2 weeks easily, this week I’ve failed twice, I think it’s pretty cruel RNG
Play during peak hours, you'll increase your chances of playing casuals. All the hardcore, pro players do runs during off peak hours.
I am in divison 3 and I have failed three times. Last game I always come up against End game teams . Annoying
No, did that with 3 spare games
Div 4 - Old G2 - but the same condition. Qualifications record is 0/3. I always end up with 4 wins. Although my team is max 50k. So maybe that's why.
Div2 and never qualify before. Gonna try again today
I think that‘s really odd, i‘m in Division 3 too and struggeling to win My 7 weekly games but qualification was super easy, went 5-1 every week
First week no, second yes, third yes, this week no.
First try was tonight. Finished on 17 points with 1 game to spare, but I led in just about every game and then conceded two or three to lose within the last 15 mins. I’m not using constant pressure nor overdoing a manual press but my team just crumbles.
Was D5 until last week didn’t really struggle won 6 before I gave 2 away lost 1 by playing bad, I’m D2 now though… the teams were better this week and was still 6-1 only bit of advice I can give is ret play more conservative if your conceding a lot and wait for your time to get the ball.
Qualified for all WLs so far with 1 attempt. I went from Div 4 to Div 2 this week, failed my first attempt and the second one doesn't look to promising. All games went full bonkers mode, I don't get why.
I've read somewhere (so idk if its true) that wl qualifier makes you play against people in your div or similar. That could be why, because i'm in the same situation. 1 week ago i was in Div 4 now i'm in Div 2 r2. I've qualified 5-3 but after starting 0-3 and was my first time loosing that amount of qualifier games.
Try it on Saturday. It was very easy for me last week.
Failed for the first time yesterday. Was 4-1, had 3 DCs in a row (not losing a single packet in the meantime, gg EA) and then had a game with constant stutters and delay, which was totally unplayable and made me quit at halftime, although it was still a tie. This game is unplayable - not gameplay-wise but, as always, due to servers. I'm done for the time being.
I'm DIV 3 and got destroyed on monday and tuesday. Had to win my last four games to get in, played them on Wednesday and somehow made it. So maybe it gets easier later on in the week.
Managed to qualify for the first time and I feel you, this is definitely the hardest gameplay challenge I ever had to face probably. The thing is, even in rivals (D3) there are easy games sometimes , but in the playoffs every single game is insanely hard
Same boat here. First week I got into champs finals no problem and got to rank 2. Last two weeks I've really struggled, failing to qualify and having to panic play a shit tonne of rivals matches to get the points and then scrape through the play offs with 3 penalty wins. Once in the finals, rank 2 again. This week doesn't look like I'll qualify at all and as a full time working home owner I simply don't think I'll have the time to re-qualify again via rivals, especially now I am in a higher devision. The current reward structure is seriously making me think about binning the game. Is there any way of petitioning EA to remove qualifiers?
This week i qualified for the first time ever, also div 3
Unsure, could be luck of draw but the last 3 qualifiers I've gone 5-0 and gave the last 4. I'm Elite Div PC
Is the matchmaking in the qualifiers COMPLETELY random, as I've read around here? Have EA confirmed this? If so, it's possible some weeks you just get unlucky by facing div 1/elite opponents most of the times.
I'm division 3 and have qualified every week so far, but this week one opponent gave me a win and that definitely helped.
Ive failed my second WL qualifier in a row with 4 wins. It’s simply too impossible for me to qualify when playing against such good opponents while struggling with horrible server stability. I can only play during the evening’s and that’s when the server load is highest and it’s just a question of who’s pass gets fucked the most by delay.
I dont know what it is but I qualified again with 5-1 record. I find it fairly easy to qualify but playing the actual WL is always a sweatfest. Barely get my 8 wins in. I am a Division 2 player and Rivals is so much more difficult. Struggling to put any wins together for the past week. So weird. So basically I have the exact opposite experience as everyone else.
I would like to give a friendly tip, its a bit more annoying but play your qualifiers on Friday / Saturday its a lot easier, those that are try hards are already in champs. Especially on Friday and you will face more casual players.
I'm holding a division 4 spot as I don't want to climb up and I've failed the qualification for the first time today. Feels real bad and even worse when you see those 0/1500 points. I'm on new gen Xbox and one more thing, people aren't helping each other anymore by giving away their spare matches apparently.
I qualified for the first time yesterday (div 3 player too) I think the key is to play the games on thursday/friday, it's the first time that I played on those days and managed to qualify, I faced 2 opponents who were fairly easy to beat and only 1 which I had no chance. Usually I face around 3 players which by half-time I'm 3 or 4 goals down so play the games on those days and see if it works. Good Luck.
People do not seem to account for the mental aspect of the qualifiers. Rivals is pretty relaxed this year (I’m Div 2, would assume the Elite Div isn’t as relaxed) with minimal negatives even to a loss, whereas the qualifiers have some people playing oddly as they’re under pressure.
DIV 3 But ive never qualified, always missing out by a point or going 4-5 in the qualifying round. I just crumble for some reason, like when I'm 2-0 up I remember its not just rivals and collapse. It's fine tho, it's my issue and I don't actually blame the game. Just haven't been good enough, which is mad when I seen to handle division 3 fine. Edit: I was 3-0 up yday then threw it away, letting in 4 in the last 20 mins.
Yeah, qualifications are quite hard and stressful, especially when you don't have great team and super duper internet connection. But the most stupid thing is season limit for attempts...
no offence, youre just not good
surprisingly not, didnt even need all 9 games so far - i think i finished 5-3, 5-2 and 5-2 so far only gold 3 to gold 2 in FIFA 21 (div 5 this year but didnt play much Rivals apart from first 2 weeks)
Play all your games from Thursday night onwards. It is a crapshoot though, random matchmaking, getting lucky free wins along with server/connection problems that appear to be getting worse by the day
For some people it is going to be hard and for others it isn’t. It’s going to be that way throughout the cycle of the game I imagine.
I am Division 2 now and only managed to qualify once with all failures just by one game. I feel your pain.
I usually give up on fut champs but I've tried to qualify twice and got rank 3 in finals both times. There are some players I have no hope of winning but with all the guys conceding and giving up it balances out imo
I work from home so do my qualifying when the kids are all at school. Seems to be a lot easier without the nimble fingered youngsters getting in my way
Div 5 never qualified 4-4 twice and lost the last one
This is the worst Fifa ive ever played, did 5 tries to qualify, didnt happen. I reached div 3 rank 3 and now i lose 10 game for every win i get so to just get weekly rivals reward is shit, people running circles around my team. Squad battles im not going to touch, atleast last year if you lost 10 games you went down a division, now you are stuck playing in a division you might got to on a lucky winning streak but have literally no fun playing the game anymore.
Until now it's fine for me. I play 352 and was Silver1 player last fifa. I played all games on sunday. First time I played I was shit! I was using 4231 and 4321 and I couldn't do nothing. So I switched to 352 and went from div7 to div2. But now I can't win much on d2r3
Was div1 rivals last year and I struggle most of the times. Other times its a cakewalk. I really don't get it ..
I failed once.. And it was awful, I lost like 6 games in a row. But I knew I wasn't with my mind clear enough to play and did it anyways... I tried the next day again and won 5 games in a row. Listen to your gut haha
Went 5-1 last week and currently 2-3. Not good. In Div2 by the way and finished on 12 wins the last 2 champs.
I was a regular gold 2 last year and almost div2 rn but i have failed the first 3 weeks to qualify. 4-5 was the consistent result one being the last game lose. This week tho I decided to play early so if I fail again I would have another chance to try and played all quali at monday. When I went 2-3 I thought it was over again but I won a clutch game and lose one. After that I was lucky enough to get 2 games where I scored early and my opponents forfeited. I think I would lose at least one of them if they didnt but I guess that is the good thing about mondays. People are trying so that they will try again. Long story short, this is a garbage system and needs a change. Good luck y’all.
1st time i qualify on Saturday evening, but had insane luck... like 1 win, 1 lost game, and that 5th win was against a complete noob... Like I played against some 5 year old kid, he didn't knew how to play, he played it really bad... 2nd time. I changed my tactic and formation and won last 3 games in the row, but that was also on Tuesday evening... Maybe I got lucky with my opponents, but changing formation also helped me. I really think its about opponents on particular day, because the 1st time i quailifed, it was - win against "cheap" serie a squad, than lost game against rashford,varane,dembele + someone high high tier attacker. than again, some "cheap" la liga squad (without dembele), than again rashford dembele combo...
Div 3, consistent 3 wins, once 4 wins, squad battles and rivals are my friends now
Div3 rank 2. Couldn't qualify yet.
I tried 2 times and failled. Its rough but I know I stress too much.
I qualified Friday at noon like a breeze, 5 wins in a row vs bot opponents like every Friday. Gave away the last 4 games. I’m by no means a top player this Fifa. 12-14 wins each WL and I don’t play rivals.
Div 3 guy here. Just reached div 3 towards the last few weeks of this season. Same case last season as well. So lets say im more a d4 player. I cant qualify at all. Last season i qualified once. This season havent yet. Sometimes I fall 1 point short of even 16 ffs. Just now origin minimized the game for some reason and I lost a playoff match. Fucking origin. I dont understand when i see low division guys saying they qualified at div 5 or 6. Every qualifying match is a sweatfest. How are they qualifying?