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[Caaboose]

itd be nice to know what the mechs people used were for light and medium like im betting im the only CIcada in the Medium top 5 and its just stupid since Cicada's shouldn't even be in that bracket how do you match up against a hunchback with 9 mediums or some other stupid build? I mean ive done 800+ damage multiple times with my cicada but they are way to easy to hit and next to no armor. need to reduce the base tonnage (fully unequiped) so you can get a little more in it, just a ton or two would be nice.

EIther way yeah was a fun tourny, I met a few of the people that got prizes in my runs haha idk how they managed to get top 5 some of them but others actually were really good some I think may be scripting or something but I don't play enough to know for sure. only been playing a lot fer the last week so yeah.

[Odnir]

Caaboose, on 25 June 2013 - 06:29 AM, said:

I met a few of the people that got prizes in my runs haha idk how they managed to get top 5 some of them but others actually were really good

No matter who you are or what you're playing, there are times your team throws you under a bus or you have to pay attention to the physical world around you and not the video game you're engaged with. I never assume that anyone I play with is perpetually 'awful' because of one or even a few bad matches. Even when I really want to because of some hair-pulling stupidity. For all I know the phone rang or someone knocked at the door or some other deal.

[someone else]

Chavette:

It was implied that I am one of those, if any, who manipulates Elo (not an acronym, I see) to gain an advantage in tournaments. I posted here to defend "someone else" as an established player.

I've played in 3 tournaments in total: the first grindfest one (heavy category), one of the days of the week-long one (light), and this one (light), only ever as "someone else", completely solo with no friends to co-operate with, and wholly in the spirit of fairness.

In any case, I don't disagree with the point PEEFsmash was making, just that I, myself, am not gaming the system for an advantage.

[Flyby215]

I think this was one of the best tournaments yet!

Reasonable scoring system, no more poptarts, PPC boats [somewhat] in decline, a popular category (heavies) with options to play favourites (assault/med/light), more prizes than just 1st place. I understand the concerns of some people about elo rigging or playing dummy accounts but personally I didn't see it... I think a good number of the winner are recognizable members from the community with a few new faces as well (which is a good thing).

The tournament games themselves were often very fun! Granted, I had just started my vacation so I was pretty well buzzed the entire tournament (Don't drink and drive! Drink and pilot is okay). I remember a couple of matches where there were 3-4 leaderboard players in the same match, I managed to beat my arch-nemesis (although I didn't get the kill-shot, darnit!) but beat him in match score and end-of-tournament score (even though he was in a heavier category).

Anyway, thanks a lot PGI! Keep up the good work!

[Soy]

Chavette, on 25 June 2013 - 04:24 AM, said:

He got caught so badly he had to post here! I know what his real account is, but I won't tell here.

Lol, PM me. ENTERTAIN US

[Soy]

By the way here's Eddie Murphy telling 2 stories that accurately describe my excitement for the winner's announcement thread:





(warning STRONG LANGUAGE, probably not safe for work ^^)

[someone else]

Chavette, on 25 June 2013 - 04:24 AM, said:

He got caught so badly he had to post here! I know what his real account is, but I won't tell here.

Soy, on 25 June 2013 - 09:24 AM, said:

Lol, PM me. ENTERTAIN US

Got caught doing what? This has been my primary account since I started it in anticipation of switching over to European servers when the time comes, and I enjoy the anonymity of pugging and roaming the battlefield as a lonewolf. It's not like I know any of you (don't use TS). What did I do wrong?

[Soy]

Dude, hello, I already said gz to you and said you looked legit to me in tourny earlier in this thread.

I just want to be amused by Chavette cuz I am bored troll like that.

[WVAnonymous]

I have never finished higher than the 50's in one of these things, and I've been in since they guaranteed Founders closed beta access. Hat tip to anyone who has played less than a year who finishes on the leader boards.

[LastPaladin]

someone else, on 25 June 2013 - 11:20 AM, said:

What did I do wrong?

Don't mind the haters, man. Some people just can't believe that some "noob" can play for a few months and be able to wipe the floor with them. They have to invent excuses for themselves to sooth their wounded pride. If it wasn't "elo manipulation", they'd accuse people of using aimbots, or sync dropping, etc.

Just keep plugging, and if you place on the leaderboards again next tourney, you can make them eat their words

[Dashwood Fox]

Caaboose, on 25 June 2013 - 06:29 AM, said:

it'd be nice to know what the mechs people used were for light and medium

I rotated between four:

JR7-F w/ 6 MLS, 300XL
JR7-F w/ 5 MLS, 300XL
JR7-K w/ 4 MLS and 1 SRM2, 300XL
RVN-2X w/ 4 MLS and 1 SRM6 + Artemis, 245XL

I get bored with just 1 playing style. Each build required a different set of tactics.

[Chavette]

someone else, on 25 June 2013 - 11:20 AM, said:

Got caught doing what? This has been my primary account since I started it in anticipation of switching over to European servers when the time comes, and I enjoy the anonymity of pugging and roaming the battlefield as a lonewolf. It's not like I know any of you (don't use TS). What did I do wrong?

Joking bro...

[Silkfire]

Just out of curiosity, how many competitors were in each class? That would be some interesting information that would be neat if PGI would post along with the leaderboards. For some of us, we competed not necessarily to win, although I wouldn't have complained if I had, but I feel there are better pilots out there, and it made me feel good to place at 51 in jager. I consider myself a fair pilot, and didn't really expect to place in the top5, but it would be nice to know just how many others were in the jager class total, all of the classes for that matter??

[Caaboose]

It would be very smart to make it so you have to have a minimum ELO rating to get into the tournaments this would make it so only a certain skill level can get in and would stop people from making fake accounts to take advantage of just having to play bad players.

could also have it so if after they joined the tournament if their ELO goes below the minimum then any games played won't count until they come above it again.

[Steve Varayis]

got 112 using a near-stock Raven 3L Mastered.

Lowest I got on the board was 54.

I am happy

[Corvus Antaka]

Tourney scoring needs to be more "natural" still, the assist farming & teams killing in sync drops for one guy is still happening, however, the system appears to be improving.

Congrats to all the winners that actually deserve it and braved pugging all weekend.

[PhoenixFire55]

Colonel Pada Vinson, on 26 June 2013 - 07:15 AM, said:

teams killing in sync drops for one guy is still happening

Just no. Not in top 10 bracket.

This time scoring system was biased towards getting kills, which always means kill-stealing in one way or the other. You can't however bring a perfect scoring system just as you can't really come up with a perfect match score system (unless you really put a thought into it and make smth really complicated), its always gonna be a compromise of some sort. Unless of course its olympic style 1 on 1 matches, but a again, that just determines 1 on 1 skill. Some players are perfect in support roles but not so good 1 on 1. I say run multiple tourneys trying out different things and see what players like most.

[Corvus Antaka]

PhoenixFire55, on 26 June 2013 - 11:53 AM, said:

Just no. Not in top 10 bracket.

nope.

[Pandamcpanda]

i honestly didnt see much of, if any kill stealing this tourny, as for sync droping or nuking elo, i didn't really see any of that this time around either. Being a med pilot was interesting, I ran around in a cn-al:



and a yen lo with pretty decent results. I even got to see druidika and stomp him into the ground:


The tourny was alot of fun, and i didn't have to spend all weekend playing either. Hope to see everyone in the next tourny!

[ohheLp]

I had fun also, gg's everyone.