Your post is ok, don't worry about the vent thread.

Well if until now this cases was really rare and only when there wasn't enough teams to create a CL competition I think like you that now they changed the system in something more like CUP but isn't to fair especially for a competition like CL.

It happened for me too, already the 4th season in row, once (now) I am the highest level 31 and there are few 30 but before I was the small level and had +1 level opponents and is super hard to keep it with them especially because the most of CL players are still active.

Like a suggestion to fix this, I wrote about this here and here.