How do dedicated servers affect me as an Australian?

[Ralph Aquino]

Basically the title, how do dedicated servers affect me as an Australian in relation to my matchmaking experience. I've looked up how dedicated servers work, and I don't fully understand.. Could someone ELI5? (Explain like I'm 5).

 

All I understand is now the game isnt being supported by one person in the game you are in and you aren't under the mercy of someones brother wanting to download explicit content as well as the host advantage is no longer existing with dedicated servers or extremely hardly at all. BUT does this mean that when I vs people from america that they have a more beneficial connection as they are closer to the dedicated server (running from what I understand here, bear with me and correct me when needed)? OR do both the person from America and the person from Australia have the same amount of lag as the other guy?

 

Cool.

[Azaxx]

Assuming both parties have an equal down and up speed, for sake of simplicity, the person who's closest to the server will suffer less lag.

This applies to any party at any point on the planet.

[Is not JL]

You will have a tendency to be matched with australians, new zealanders and other oceania/east asia/southeast asia players more than americans, europeans etc. as the game will prefer to match you up with people who connect to your regional set of dedicated servers before (I assume) it goes "Oh....we can't find anyone. Divert to another Dedicated Server!"