How does High Level PvP Work?

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edited May 2014 in MPQ General Discussion
With a maxed 141 squad, I see people talk about using "seeding" teams and "tanking". Whats the deal with all that? Can someone give me a rundown or a link to a thread with an in-depth rundown of all this?

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  • Copps
    Copps Posts: 333 Mover and Shaker
    Seed teams are the low level zero rating teams you fight at the beginning of an event. Tanking is the process of purposefully losing a great many matches in pvp so you are fighting people with low match making ratings generally with lvl one rosters if you lose enough.
  • Unknown
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    But aren't your opponents generally chosen by your current rating? I'd think it wouldn't be beneficial to tank enough to fight people that low.
  • Unknown
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    There's currently a thread discussing this in the "tips and guides" section. There's no definitive guide there for pvp, but this thread has a lot of useful info on pvp in general (including tanks and seeds).

    viewtopic.php?f=6&t=6488&p=125878&hilit=pvp#p125878
  • Unknown
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    Nochi wrote:
    But aren't your opponents generally chosen by your current rating? I'd think it wouldn't be beneficial to tank enough to fight people that low.

    Event points are all the same. Fighting a lesser team is always preferable than a stronger team because you can beat them quicker, take little to no damage and there is less chance of a retaliation.
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    Toxicadam wrote:
    Event points are all the same. Fighting a lesser team is always preferable than a stronger team because you can beat them quicker, take little to no damage and there is less chance of a retaliation.

    Right, but by losing you're also losing your own points, and then you're fighting weaker opponents who have less points, so you get less points for beating them, so it seems like a lose lose. Going to go check that thread above to see if I'm just being stupidly blind here.
  • Unknown
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    The basic idea is that up to a certain point, you get more points from wins than you lose from losses. So you might get say +20 from a win and -10 from a loss. This means that you lose a lot more matches than you win if you go say +200 points then -200 points, so for a net gain of +0 points, your MMR plummets a lot. So you end up where you start but you get easier opponents.

    Personally I don't really tank that hardcore (getting single digit level opponents? holy...), but I like to save up a team that my 1* team can beat, then at the end of the night, throw out my 1* team and see how far I drop.
  • Unknown
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    you tank... thats how the players that LOOK like the best players do it...

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