Life In 19x19

I think the games may be lost to posterity. (I seem to get my last records and no more.) It is typically sekis with unusual features, for example where one player has an eye and the other doesn't.

Has anyone noticed a change in the 9x9 match making lately or is it just me? For a few months I've been around 1500-1600 rating myself and typically matched against 1250-1800 rated players. I sometimes get a handicap stone and sometimes give one.

But lately I've been getting a few really highly rated players matched against me. And sometimes without handicap stones. I played: 1896 (handicap stone at 2-2), 1907 (no handicap), and a red-colored 2201 (no handicap). I've not been doing particularly well lately myself (from ~1600 down to ~1530) so that doesn't explain it. I follow Yanagisawa Satoshi 6-dan on YouTube. He comments some 13x13 Go Quest games and a few 9x9 games. His account rating is 2100 on 9x9... Take it easy on me, I'm waiting for boiling water or the microwave.

By the way, does Go Quest ever do 0 komi? I noticed some weird counting lately that might be attributed to that, but I don't know how to check the komi setting (if there is one).