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[G4M3R]

The season is finally over! Unfortunately it's "golf season" for the Antares Scopions (6-3) as we missed the playoffs by a sliver of a few matches that could have gone either way. Everyone we've faced in our division were great guys and it was a very well run league by the Steel Jaguars (esp. TheMagician). Kudos to you guys. I know it's tons of work.

Looking forward to next season and the playoffs --- anyone know when it's actually going to start?

http://www.runhotord...league-season-1

For the merc corps/clans/whatever the politically correct name is for a group of guys playing together, that didn't get a chance to join. I would seriously recommend the league to test your mettle against what I consider the best teams MWO has to offer today.

Hoping Season 2 will be even bigger!

Edited by G4M3R, 07 March 2013 - 06:22 AM.

[MaddMaxx]

Are they expanding the # of Teams allowed in? Or are you offering your Teams spot to another for next season?

[G4M3R]

Not sure if they are expanding but they should.

[Grraarrgghh]

RHOD can eat a huge **** if they don't implement a maximum time allowed between drops.

Teams taking up to 45(!) ******* minutes to even ******* queue up is beyond unacceptable.

[Hann Solo]

We had alot of fun with it. I know Templar Exodus is looking forward to season 2.

[Little Nemo]

Yuuuuuuuuup.

[M3atloaf]

It isn't over yet.. there are still a few teams dicking around like DV8 that haven't finished their drops for the season.

As far as RHoD expanding... I'm sure that there will be more teams next season. On top of that, there is plenty of room right now as many teams couldn't hack it and dropped out of the league mid-season.

[Sleipnir]

The drops which I've taken part in have been very good fun.

Well done to all involved.

[Monkey Bone]

Big surprise that all the pony clans suck

[Stoicblitzer]

The matchmaker has been an impediment to getting these matches played in a timely manner.

[Little Nemo]

Stoicblitzer, on 07 March 2013 - 08:51 AM, said:

The matchmaker has been an impediment to getting these matches played in a timely manner.

We dropped 7/8 last night with JW. Seemed to be working well from our experience.

[Grraarrgghh]

M3atloaf, on 07 March 2013 - 08:39 AM, said:

On top of that, there is plenty of room right now as many teams couldn't hack it and dropped out of the league mid-season.

Or they dropped because the formatting was garbage, the league didn't care to implement a quick match turnaround rule, and it turned into a massive chore.

Even with a missed drop or two, 5 games should take less than 90 minutes to play. 3 ******* hours later and clan "HOLD ON WE LOST A GUY BECAUSE WEVE BEEN TAKING SO ******* LONG TO SETUP AND MY BUDDY IS DRIVING HOME" can go **** themselves.

Other groups were so ******* fussy about their precious KDR that they wouldn't even drop out of a match/suicide when a missed drop happened.

Edited by Grraarrgghh, 07 March 2013 - 09:22 AM.

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Jules Gonzales, on 07 March 2013 - 08:44 AM, said:

Big surprise that all the pony clans suck

??

We won the Closed Beta RHoD tournament, as well as the Blackthorne's Dragoons Tournament, and we are still in playoff contention for this one.

As Meatloaf mentioned, there's still a few games left to be played.

[Riffleman]

If they go ahead and implement these stupid @$$ consumables into the game, where only the mega rich in c bills or those willing to shell out cash can compete, I believe your league is going to dry up, as well as the game. I know of at least one big group that will be pretty decimated from lack of players remaining the day this patch goes through.

[Mongoose Trueborn]

M3atloaf, on 07 March 2013 - 08:39 AM, said:

It isn't over yet.. there are still a few teams dicking around like DV8 that haven't finished their drops for the season.

As far as RHoD expanding... I'm sure that there will be more teams next season. On top of that, there is plenty of room right now as many teams couldn't hack it and dropped out of the league mid-season.

Glad you are thinking of us. I'm sure you will be thinking of us even more if we beat blazing aces who was unable to play M-F nights. Whoever wins gets into the tourney so it's understandable they didn't want to drop without their A team.

[Little Nemo]

Riffleman, on 07 March 2013 - 09:33 AM, said:

If they go ahead and implement these stupid @$$ consumables into the game, where only the mega rich in c bills or those willing to shell out cash can compete, I believe your league is going to dry up, as well as the game. I know of at least one big group that will be pretty decimated from lack of players remaining the day this patch goes through.

So, spending 40k is for the rich? Somehow I don't think so. Play one match, win or lose, you have enough for your consumable if you desire...

[BigJim]

Riffleman, on 07 March 2013 - 09:33 AM, said:

If they go ahead and implement these stupid @$$ consumables into the game, where only the mega rich in c bills or those willing to shell out cash can compete, I believe your league is going to dry up, as well as the game. I know of at least one big group that will be pretty decimated from lack of players remaining the day this patch goes through.

I'd be happy if the league doesn't allow consumables or if it does - New tactics will form and the teams will be where the good and the bad is found, you can bet your last MC on that.

Just like ECM, Ravens, SRM-boaters, 20-Cats, pop-snipers, hill-humpers, capture-modules (remember those?), speed-cappers, LURM-boats, et-all, the pugalettos will spam the forum wah-wahing and the teams will get down to business, find out what works, how to negate or mitigate is, how to put together a drop-dec to pull the rug out from under an enemy that overly-relies on it, and everything else.
It's what they do.

The teams that dry up would have done so anyway, it doesn't bother me, but that said, I see no problem if the league decided to ban consumables, it would be just another rule, like any other.

But see if from the organisers PoV; We don't know how you can tell if an enemy is using a consumable, certainly no way to prove it unless you're recording the match, and happen to witness the air-strike, coolant flushing out, etc..

Personally I record *all* my league drops, but are you going to make it a rule that every match must be recorded? What if a whole team says the enemy "cheated" but nobody caught it on camera?

That's why some rules would be nice, but can't be included.
Remember there was talk in the very first tourney about limiting it to one instance of a particular variant per match (to cut down on multiple Gauss-cats).
But back then, how could you tell, unless you recorded footage of them on-screen at the same time?
Some rules are just so finicky to enforce it's not worth implementing them.

Edited by BigJim, 07 March 2013 - 10:06 AM.

[MaddMaxx]

In a PUG, take what you want for Consumables. In a Competitive setup, ie: 4 or 8 mans with Comms, then the Team Brass can ask nicely or they can eat the cost themselves. It is, after-all, just a game ffs.

[Little Nemo]

Don't know how this turned into consumable talk, but I don't think they are going to be as game changing as people assume.

[G4M3R]

The good thing about RHOD is that most teams that play it, do play with integrity. Besides most games are recorded anyways.