I finally finished the challenge after playing most of yesterday and only a little today. Sticking my stats into excel (they paste nicely if you take care to only select the text) I did it in 95 games with a pretty poor 101 kills, 65 deaths and 407 assists, 45 wins and 50 losses. Compared to the victor challenge I needed another 29 games to get to the right number in this challenge (95 vs 66). It certainly felt more time intensive. The victor challenge I had 35 wins in 66 games.
I ended with a good match at least, 6 kills, 6 assists and nearly 1200 damage.
Why this was so much harder I don't know but herding cats springs to mind. The quality of the team work was much worse this challenge compared to the victor challenge. People would spread out looking for an easy kill and get picked off one byh one. Obviously my negative W/L ratio worked against me especially given the positive before. If I hadn't had so much free time on my hands as I did on the Saturday I would not have had a chance to finish this.
I don't think the kill requirement is a good one. I'd much rather see some overall measure of your usefulness like say getting a match score of 60 or some other arbitrary number where you can still play like you would normally and still earn your free mech.
Edited by Inveramsay, 18 January 2015 - 01:12 PM.