Yep... Until there's a way to prevent this from being the state of it, spar has a lot of 'skill' that is actually chance relating to where the server identifies people at any given time.
And, you know... timezones enabling some people to participate in a reasonable fashion. 
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The viewing room shows sparrers as warping, but when you are actually sparring you see no lag.
So no, what your seeing in the viewing room is not a accurate representation of what the state of spar is like atm.