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[norus]

As the title says, these are my thoughts on CW after doing 5 matches: Oh man this sucks.

The teams! Queued as "defense" each time on worlds that had 60+ people on each side, I was counter attack 4 times and defense once. 3 of the counter attacks were against 10+ man group queues with my side having mostly pug or sometimes small (4 or so) man group drops. The last counter attack was vs noone so we just had to destroy everything. It was also the one with the longest queue, ~8 minutes to form my group then a 10 minute countdown for absolutely nothing.

The maps! The ice map is absolutely terrible. How the designers thought it'd be good I have no idea. Our pug group with no coordination beat a 10+ man unit group drop with absolute ease, didn't lose a single generator. 2 pretty small chokepoints that the attackers have to go through and a huge area for the defense to fire at them from multiple angles. Having this map twice I never want to see it again. The other maps are better, but still so massively skewed in favor of the defense.

So in conclusion, without a massive group drop it is nothing more than an exercise in frustration as an attacking force. Props to the razzlehaguer tksomethingorotherdragon who took command during one of the counter attacks though, we got all 3 gens down. Maybe we could have done a bit better if I wasn't lag warping around that match but I kinda doubt it. I'm not sure I want to bother trying to get this tournament done on the CW side of things given the queues and having been against such large group queues every time.

[COOL HANDS]

I have too agree that the maps for cw is anything but balanced for the attacking team at least. Need more points of entry imo.