Huh. My favorite playing buddy (according to Halotracker, we've played 300 matches together - one third of my total) finally quit Halo 4 altogether because he was tired of going seriously negative all the time. When we're together with 14 other people, there's no reason at all that my slight advantage in skill over him should cause us to meet so many players who are so much better than him (and often so much better than me, too) - you may think it's okay to be challenged by someone better than you once in a blue moon, but my experience is that it's 70+% of the time. (And HIS experience is 100% of the time.)