nom de guerre, on 08 December 2012 - 09:41 AM, said:
Note the "technically speaking," I am referring purely to the code of the matchmaker system, not to the morality or ethicality of 4+4vpugs. They only capped group size at 4 they did not program the matchmaker to only put one team a side it will happen as there is no system in place to prevent them. Thus from a technical perspective there is no reason for it not to occur.
Deleted my post. My bad. I thought you were one of those people who are all "Well the rules don't very specifically state I CANT do this thing that is very clearly against the spirit of the system, so that means I can do it."
Yeah, technically speakin there's no reason for it to not occur. Logically speakin though it really shouldn't.
In fact, in the early days of the buildup to the new matchmaker the specifically stated that the plan was to cap at 4 man premades per side so that the preferred distribution would end up lookin like this.
4 premade + 4 puggie = 4 premade + 4 puggie
I'm not sure if it was some sort of technical limitation to the system that caused them to drop that idea in favor of the current system or if they purposely decided they liked it better this way, but I'm kinda sad they didn't go with the original plan.