GAC, 2.5 mil difference against opponent

"Gifafi;c-2348644" wrote:

"cboath7;c-2348636" wrote:

"Thorozar11;c-2346903" wrote:
My last GAC week every one of the other 7 in my bracket had 2 more GL than me or 2M more GP. First autoset and I won handily. 2nd player had 2M (6M roster) more GP than me but 0 GL. He was a garbage player, won easily. Last guy had 2M more than me and 1 GL like me. I won fairly easily.

Skill rating means something. I expected to go 0-3 but swept the bracket.

Well you don't win or lose with skill rating, but the only skill that beast 6 v 2 gls is the guy with 6 being massively stupid and hoarding them all for offense or simply not showing - that's it.

He doesn't state what Tier it is either. If it's K1 (which i'd expect from 9M+ and 6 GLs) that's the top level. People who play very well can get their as well as completely clueless people who have no real concept of money and shell out 10's of thousands just to 'have it all'. At that point, you don't have to be good when you simply massively overpower the other guy.

So those who spend can do well and also those who play well can also. Seems like a smart system for cg and players. Just sayin

except that you're equating the two. They aren't.

Using his example, there's only really one scenario that he has a change - and that's if they other guy doesn't participate and it basically auto fills. Then he'll win with 2 victories by going through a couple GLs not fielded properly.

I wouldn't call that 'a good system'. Games tend to NOT work well when they're not an even playing field. And again here, we're just assuming his opponent is someone who doesn't care and uses money to rack up his stuff. Maybe the guy does care and is going to mop the floor with him..

Their skill system sucks and they need to look at more than that for matchmaking/grouping. Frankly, that match shouldn't occur, granted it's a 2.5M difference which with similar power available - still a huge advantage but putting someone up against someone they have zero chance at if both sides try? Massive flaw. Miracle RNG won't save him in that situation, nor will being 10x better.