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Design a Global Real-Time Multiplayer Game Backend — low-latency state sync across regions.

The low-latency-state-synchronization problem: how game state stays synchronized across players in different geographic regions with minimal perceived lag, how conflicts are resolved when two players' actions affect the same game state simultaneously, and how matchmaking pairs players by both skill and geographic proximity.

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