How does playing in the arena work? It isn’t real time right? But then why does it say “finding opponent?”
Does anyone know how your opponent is picked, whether it being real time or something like finding someone who has already played and then taking their score and making them oppose you?
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So, while yes the game advertises it as a "live" system, and you are technically playing against other players, you aren't playing them in real time. You are playing what they call "ghost data", and you aren't directly competing with other players, you're simply playing to see who gets the highest score against "bots" using other players previous game data.
Source (Emphasis mine):
However, in the same article:
Some on reddit explains this a bit better: