Q&A: Sandbagging Response

"DarjeloSalas;c-2039536" wrote:


thecarterologist958 StarSon here’s one for you:

TW is optional in our guild. People don’t sign up if they can’t commit to regularly checking the board to attack.

The Christmas TW we had our lowest ever sign up total of 44/50. Yay! Advantage us, right?

No. We faced a guild who were in the top 150 total GP (247M) against our 226M. 20 slots per zone so only 39/40 of them signed up. We were well beaten. Not annihilated, but a good 200 points behind them. They cleared our board in 3 hours, we cleared their’s in 23 hours.

Going in short handed doesn’t always give an advantage, because there’s nothing you can do to prevent being matched with a better guild who are going in even more short handed!

So you are saying matchmaking usually gives an advantage while giving an example where for you it didn't? So to some degree you have managed to take two opposing perspectives and provide a statement that supports them both. Going in shorthanded left you with a disadvantage, but you got beat by someone more shorthanded so perhaps it gave them one. I'm impressed by the agreeableness there.