Procrastinato on 26 November 2009
Usually only takes a few seconds during US primetime, for me.
The queuing system is interesting -- it appears to pool people waiting for a particular kind of match, and then when it sees enough players for two of the three teams to have a match of said type, it launches the game.
If there were tens, or hundreds, of thousands of players, rather than just a few thousand beta testers during primetime, such a system would launch games at a fantastic rate, as new games would launch very rapidly as people left games that had just finished, and re-queued.
That said, I don't imagine there are quite so many beta testers playing today in the US -- it's Thanksgiving today, which is a pretty major family holiday.
