GAC matchmaking - painful, but not broken

"Ragnarok_COTF;c-2331909" wrote:

"Rath_Tarr;c-2331850" wrote:

Having the latest shiney toys or theorycrafting guildmates does not equal best player either.

I don't, nor did I, dispute that.

"Rath_Tarr;c-2331850" wrote:

I actually watched a bit of an Ahnald stream recently. It was quite entertaining to see him make a rookie mistake against an Enfys Nest.

For sure. He's human like the rest of us. He makes mistakes. There are also a few things he does frequently that I think are sub-optimal. But if others watched you play the game, even if you weren't trying to entertain a stream, I guarantee you, they'd find mistakes. Heck, record yourself and rewatch it. I guarantee you'll find things you could do better everytime.

"Rath_Tarr;c-2331850" wrote:

Again, I am not saying that the top players in Kyber 1 are not good players - they would have to be in order to beat their peers - just that they are not necessarily the best players. There are a lot of good players scattered throughout the leagues who are now buried in the rankings and are unlikely ever to be matched against the highest GP players.

I disagree. I think they are the best players. Sure, maybe there's a smart guy with a smaller roster that could do more than them with the same tools. But he doesn't have those tools, so he hasn't done so, so I don't care.

There may be someone out there that could run a new WR in the mile if only he had been identified early, trained his entire life for the event, and had everything come together for a perfect race. But that's not how we measure accomplishments.