TW matchmaking

"kello_511;c-2183328" wrote:

"HerderOfNerf;c-2183294" wrote:

"Waqui;c-2183292" wrote:

"HerderOfNerf;d-237254" wrote:

All of the guild who sandbagged us are top, competitive guilds. We just passed 300M GP and are getting matched with 340M GP guilds. I searched the DSR bot for the name of our most recent opponent and they always join with 40 players, dating back to last year. So the usual excuses of, "we had players out of town," or "we don't make players join if they don't want to" don't apply. It's an intentional strategy to get an easier opponent.

We've seen evidence that some guilds do it strategically (on purpose) while many guilds don't.

At lower GP, you get the casual guilds that might not require participation. I think the 340M GP guilds that promote themselves as elite competitive are doing it strategically.

There are high level players who do not like TW. They prefer not to play.
Then there are high end guilds, some of whom take TW very seriously and others who are less so.

That second group of players is happy to find those players. It’s a great fit - those players can be in a 300M+ guild and not have to do TW. Those guilds can maintain a high GP but draw weaker opponents by allowing those players not to take part.

Is it gaming the system?
Those players need to be in a guild somewhere, why can’t it be a 300M (Or 320M, 340M, etc) guild if both sides are happy with it?