There is a huge server routing issue for New Zealand and Australia

Title.

It’s progressively gotten worse for me and my friends. Initially it was one every few games. Tonight, we’re now only getting queued into Los Angeles servers. Occasionally Singapore.

Max acceptable ping is set to 75. Setting it up at multiple values makes no difference. It always routes us beyond Australian servers.

Valve what the hell is going on?

Verifying game files does nothing.

Are there any other ways to resolve this? I want to play but this is beyond frustrating.