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[Felio]

ThatBum42, on 28 March 2014 - 09:16 PM, said:

Stomps happen all the time, it's just the nature of the game. With no respawning, a numerical advantage quickly multiplies into more numerical advantage. Plus stuff like who gets into a more defensible position first in the early game, who has more tonnage, and simply dumb luck.

Don't let it bug you too much, the Elo system tends to normalize your win/loss ratio to near 1.00 over time.

To expand on this... Theoretically, it's very possible for a game of 24 people with exactly the same Elo to end in a 12 vs 0 stomp. This would be true even if the matchmaker tried to balance tonnage, which it doesn't.

[Mycrus]

Redshift2k5, on 29 March 2014 - 01:58 AM, said:

Well there are some factors that may have affected your run of poor matches.

• Different times of day and different nights of the week may bring different gaming populations leading to different matchups.
  
• The current 'win 5' event may cause some players to bring 'better' mechs to influence their chance of quickly getting 5 wins (ie bringing their 'meta' mech instead of a more 'fun' mech)
  
• You may have moved up into a higher Elo bracket leading to increased competition.
  
• Bad luck.

Asia prime time is the worst in terms of Skill gap... You have grizzled vets and mostly noobs... leading to wide elo disparity games

[IraqiWalker]

Also, regardless of elo level and tonnage matching. Every now and then you will get a match when one or two players die unexpectedly extremely early on in the game. Those situations can lead to 12 - 0 games too.