Tourneys - Fight together, not against each other!

You don't understand how tournament scoring works.

"SnipSnipGone;85337" wrote:
The Upper Echelon has us fighting each other and wasting resources that could put one of US at the top of the heap. Instead, each battle should maximize each Lower Echelon squad's potential and collectively we can topple the Upper Echelon.

The old Oliver Queen gambit--sacrifice your weakest to give everyone else a better chance to ring the bell.

How?

Run your weakest leaderless DEFENSE squad from the approved roster so that we in the Lower Echelon minimize each combat's battle debits and our strongest squads can maximize their return.

Working together, the lower precincts can throw off this tyranny! We can whip poor Will.

- luv, Mol Fulkrom

heheh

He kind of has a point unless I'm missing something.

As an example: the top 25 people in a shard use 48k power teams because they have them. The majority of other players in the shard use 26k power teams because they can't compete at the top ranks. Now the majority of players have opponents that they can beat, even at high ranks.

Each of the players would be "piggy backing" off of the ones just ahead of them. This kind of eliminates that celling you as a weaker player, where you can no longer earn points due to not being able to win battles at a certain point. Players with deeper rosters may benefit more from being able to use more crap teams, but that may be made up for & then some by the other effect.

I'm neither supporting nor disparaging this strategy btw, those are just my thoughts on it's viability.

Piggybacking describes it perfectly. Thank you.

Now I picture zombies scaling walls atop the backs of those who braved the first approach.

"Nikoms565;828725" wrote:
You don't understand how tournament scoring works.

I understand how it works at the guppy level quite well. We expend all our resources fighting the best of other guppies, and then have little to nothing left when we reach the poorer whales.

"SnipSnipGone;828790" wrote:

"Nikoms565;828725" wrote:
You don't understand how tournament scoring works.

I understand how it works at the guppy level quite well. We expend all our resources fighting the best of other guppies, and then have little to nothing left when we reach the poorer whales.

so who do you think those whales are going to attack? eachother?

"leef;828805" wrote:


so who do you think those whales are going to attack? eachother?

Doesn't matter who whales attack if they continue winning virtually every battle anyway. This way weaker players can increase their win percentages without expense and by playing well within the rules.

"SnipSnipGone;828819" wrote:

"leef;828805" wrote:


so who do you think those whales are going to attack? eachother?

Doesn't matter who whales attack if they continue winning virtually every battle anyway. This way weaker players can increase their win percentages without expense and by playing well within the rules.

for arguments sake lets say it works. You and your buddies with a low def succesfully climbed the leaderbaord. The whole top500 is flooded with low def teams. While unlikely, it's possible.
How are you going to score more points than a whale?

Further, who do whales fight anyway? Half my Guild does not Tourney cuz they don't understand any of it. Another third believe tourneys are timesinks and do a couple combats to score the minimum loot.

leef, if your background in math exceeds differential equations, we can talk.

Consider this otherwise, protest the Tourney structure by running your weakest squad.

"SnipSnipGone;828850" wrote:
leef, if your background in math exceeds differential equations, we can talk.

Consider this otherwise, protest the Tourney structure by running your weakest squad.

it was a simple question, you don't need a background in match exceding differential equations. The obvious awnser was: doing more battles. The next question would have been how you're able to do more battles with less usuable characters and probably also less ally points. Hoping that the whales don't have enough time avialable is all you can do.
So your whole strategy is basically bore the living peep out of the whales by making the tournament more timeconsuming. Now what does that have to do with differential equations?