bken1234 said: babar3355 said: [snip]And for you guys that are complaining that you didn't know this is occurring... Are you serious? You have never joined NoP, EC, etc and realized you were immediately in the top 25-50 or a 250 person bracket? Do you just immediately join the events as soon as they are available? I am frankly mind-blown that anyone could be unaware that brackets were filling up... Honestly, I can't comprehend.[snip] I think you take for granted that you have been part of a community that has tracked this longer than pretty much every other community or group of teams that I know of -- since the QB days when everyone in Slack would do a channel call the last day when the bracket flipped.First, yes, a lot of people join events as soon as the buy in happens. They don't know they are put into a bracket when they click "join". We've never even had this discussion here, and even if we did, there are 6000 players in Platinum -- how many of them participate in this community?This is, until now, one of the most unintentionally best kept secrets in the game. It is the thing that I explain to players and teams all over the place struggling when they tier up. It's a good rule of thumb for helping you when you aren't quite ready to be in the bracket you have put yourself in. There is a clear benefit to joining a later bracekt, whether you're sniping at the end like what occurred in QB or more recently individual, small bracket events, or joining the second bracket in Platinum. As one of the few players who has 2 active Platinum accounts, both of which regularly play at a competitive level -- I can attest, over and over that my main always finishes higher than my alt with the same or lower score. My alt generally enters the first day of an event so I can clear it down a bit and be able to handle both accounts, my main joins on the second day. I think the biggest factor is the fact that the more competitive players, the ones who want to go for the big prize tend to enter earlier -- while the less competitive players, the ones who have other commitments or aren't as focused on getting all prizes enter later. That waters down rankings in the second bracket. However, most people don't look at their rank until they have a few matches. Even being part of a group that tracks this, I forget to do it more often than I remember when I enter an event. Sure if they enter on the last day and finish top 25, that's something they would notice -- but since the consensus is that people thought we were being evenly divided into brackets, most people don't bother to enter on the last day, for fear they won't catch up.
babar3355 said: [snip]And for you guys that are complaining that you didn't know this is occurring... Are you serious? You have never joined NoP, EC, etc and realized you were immediately in the top 25-50 or a 250 person bracket? Do you just immediately join the events as soon as they are available? I am frankly mind-blown that anyone could be unaware that brackets were filling up... Honestly, I can't comprehend.[snip]
GrizzoMtGPQ said: bken1234 said: babar3355 said: [snip]And for you guys that are complaining that you didn't know this is occurring... Are you serious? You have never joined NoP, EC, etc and realized you were immediately in the top 25-50 or a 250 person bracket? Do you just immediately join the events as soon as they are available? I am frankly mind-blown that anyone could be unaware that brackets were filling up... Honestly, I can't comprehend.[snip] I think you take for granted that you have been part of a community that has tracked this longer than pretty much every other community or group of teams that I know of -- since the QB days when everyone in Slack would do a channel call the last day when the bracket flipped.First, yes, a lot of people join events as soon as the buy in happens. They don't know they are put into a bracket when they click "join". We've never even had this discussion here, and even if we did, there are 6000 players in Platinum -- how many of them participate in this community?This is, until now, one of the most unintentionally best kept secrets in the game. It is the thing that I explain to players and teams all over the place struggling when they tier up. It's a good rule of thumb for helping you when you aren't quite ready to be in the bracket you have put yourself in. There is a clear benefit to joining a later bracekt, whether you're sniping at the end like what occurred in QB or more recently individual, small bracket events, or joining the second bracket in Platinum. As one of the few players who has 2 active Platinum accounts, both of which regularly play at a competitive level -- I can attest, over and over that my main always finishes higher than my alt with the same or lower score. My alt generally enters the first day of an event so I can clear it down a bit and be able to handle both accounts, my main joins on the second day. I think the biggest factor is the fact that the more competitive players, the ones who want to go for the big prize tend to enter earlier -- while the less competitive players, the ones who have other commitments or aren't as focused on getting all prizes enter later. That waters down rankings in the second bracket. However, most people don't look at their rank until they have a few matches. Even being part of a group that tracks this, I forget to do it more often than I remember when I enter an event. Sure if they enter on the last day and finish top 25, that's something they would notice -- but since the consensus is that people thought we were being evenly divided into brackets, most people don't bother to enter on the last day, for fear they won't catch up. Best kept secret? This was the last entry in the reddit readme.
bken1234 said: A lot of veteran players are just as successful in pauper as they are using shiny decks, so I don’t think it should be a consideration in scoring.If you can't compete in the tier you are in, you tiered up too fast --I did this and went through months of very low placements compared to where I was in gold. Eventually I made do with what I had and collected more cards and caught up.
babar3355 said: Totally agree with this. Incentivizing players to use pauper decks rather than their coolest, most interesting, and complex cards gets a huge NO from me.
stikxs said: bken1234 said: A lot of veteran players are just as successful in pauper as they are using shiny decks, so I don’t think it should be a consideration in scoring.If you can't compete in the tier you are in, you tiered up too fast --I did this and went through months of very low placements compared to where I was in gold. Eventually I made do with what I had and collected more cards and caught up. If vets can do just as well at the low end and high end, then making low rarity viable helps players with smaller libraries have a chance at being competitive. Though I don't mean to say that pauper should be better. babar3355 said: Totally agree with this. Incentivizing players to use pauper decks rather than their coolest, most interesting, and complex cards gets a huge NO from me. I didn't mean incentivize not using the rarer cards, just a way to allow new players to be somewhat competitive. If you mean for the game to only favor old players, you make it hard to get new players.