Normals Matchmaking Is Garbage
I think the picture sums it up pretty well.
A bronze 1 and gold 5 player do not belong in a game with mid plats to low diamonds. The game was basically a 3.5 vs 5, and was almost completely unwinnable from the start. I know that queue times at high ELO are bad and some lower players get stuck in the game, believe me I know, and I get it. But the real problem with this is game is the DISTRIBUTION. The other team's lowest ranking is plat 3, going all the way to masters. Our team had a bronze 1 and the highest is just diamond 4. This game could have been so much better balanced by putting the masters players with the lower ELO players and putting that against a team of mid plats and low diamonds.
*Note the gap in average MMR is about 400
This is not an uncommon occurance, I recently actually played with gold players on my team against a rank 16 challenger player. I don't know WHAT should be done, as I know nothing about matchmaking algorithms, but clearly something needs to happen.