"Dog of War" the guy from the clan "WWII" or whatever is currently at the first position in my Silver Playoff Event (The 3rd silver playoff event to be precise, The one offering Charge Rocket Dmg and Ability Cooldown imp.) and I can assure u guys that he is a real player, But there's quite a possibility that he is with the higher ups maybe that's why he is always making it high in such playoffs...

Besides the player someone mentioned here with 9k XP and 4k inventory having ridiculously higher scores than us and having 98th position in the Gold Playoff Event is the real deal here, 9k XP and 4k inventory to have 11k score and reach 98th position while having every content at 3 stars at best except Cyro launcher 6s (That r available in Gear Hub at R4 at base), Well "There is a legitimate way to earn those points" type shi...

Bro we need plarium to make the new player promos for us, like new players get surge, blizzfrost and vortex!? Like plarium why are you doing this?

To answer your first question: There are some symbols that are very similar. For example the a used in latin alphabet looks very similar to the cyrillic a, but are two different symbols:

Name / Nаme (first a is latin and second cyrillic)

There are probably more, but this is the easiest way to have the "same" name twice.

To answer the second question: Matchmaking is sometimes shit! Depends on who is in the Que and the waiting time. Sad but fair matchmaking is rarely the case. My advice would be: Get a strong mech with good weapons and play defensively with that one as long as possible. It is underrated how this can benefit you. 

Glitches during 5v5 battle. Suck

I agree something is not right I've competed and competed on these events playing nonstop for days and not even close to the top 10% in gold  ... I was ranked in silver and bronze ..actually took 5th in silver but when it comes to gold which had similar objectives I had like # 10,000 something.. also the current gold event i just spent 1000s of a coins and im not getting the points in the objective makes no since ... definitely there is something very wrong and with the amount time and money I've spent i believe im owed an expalnation and things need to be fixed .. im not one to cry or complain about things changimg and all the crying going on about the changes aggrieved the crap out of me that's why I motmally steer clear of Discor but come on now man at lease keep things fair.