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[Skarabrae]

Question context:
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I understand that the best 10 "match scores" are used in the calculation of a tournament score. The match score itself is not used (I believe), but the various components of the match score are used in the tournament calculation.

My questions are:
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if you get a high "match score", but those match score components lead to a lower tournament score, then:

• Does your tournament score actually get lower? (I am thinking no, since I've never seen my tournament score go down)
  
• Would a match score that did not make it into the top 10, but would have given you a higher tournament score, be ignored then? (I am thinking yes, because I have gotten high kills but my tournament score never went up because match score was lower)

For example, I LRM boated and and got massive damage, but no kills, thus producing very high match scores. I did that LRM boat for a while and continued to get high match scores, but then I changed to a brawler build which produced lower match scores but higher tournament score components (e.g. kills, solo kills, and most damage). I found that I did not get those scores factored in since they fell below my previous LRM Boat match scores.

Is my perception correct? If so, then it would make sense in a tournament to stay away from high damage and just go for kills from the beginning?

[EgoSlayer]

No, it's only your best 10, if you score lower than one in your top ten it doesn't contribute. Also, match score isn't the same as the tournament scoring, they are weighted differently. The tournament scoring is listed on the tournament page, but here it is:

Score Formula: (Solo Kill x 30) + (Kill Most Damage x 20) + (Killing Blow x 10) + ( Kill Assist x 10) + (Win × 10) + (Loss × 5) + (Survive × 10) + (Dead × 5) + ((Damage done - Team Damage) ÷ 15)

CN: Solo kills are where it's at.

Edited by EgoSlayer, 25 January 2016 - 07:15 PM.