To your comment of me avoiding playing good players: Please provide me with any evidence of this. To refute your claim, I'll say this. On average, I play over 200 QMs per month, and that would be an average maintained for over a year. I play those 200+ games, not knowing to whom I will be matched against. So, I think your claims about this are unsubstantiated.
I may avoid clan matches, but I do have several reasons. Those being
- Certain players seem to feel that once you play one game versus them, that they are entitled to playing out the series, and if you don't they cry about how you bailed for 6 months
- Certain players refuse to alternate maps
- sometimes, i don't have time to play 7-9 games
- sometimes, i don't want to play 7-9 games vs the same person
- I don't like waiting for someone to join a game
- I don't like that once you get in to a good series that i have to wait for that player to do something
- I don't like that a players will justify a win or a loss to you because of unfamiliarity of a map...or beg to have you change a map, because 'they don't know it'
- I don't like having someone argue over choices of maps
Basically, I prefer QM because of the randomness of maps.
Everyone can agree that certain maps favor certain factions, I like a person to have to instantly think of what they need to do, rather than know what they are going to do on the next map.
A player who knows which maps are advantageous to their own style of play versus an opponent are going to choose those maps, and if I do not want to contradict all of the things that I have said above, i have to play those maps, but when it comes time for me to pick a map, I don't want to hear them fucking bitch about it, and because they still do, it turns me off to playing clan matches.
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The reason I said "i don't understand" is because the original poster makes claims of XWIS turning a blind eye to a player playing the same person over and over. There are rules in place to how many times you can play against a certain nick. There are a limited number of nicks allowed per person. Yes, you can get 24 wins from the same person. If someone was to play the same person 24 times or possibly 48 times in the two days prior to the month closing, I believe that pushing would be a possibility.
The original poster also says that he hasn't had much time to play. Well, if he had, he would realize that Luft and Max are ALWAYS on-line......meaning, they are players who are easy to get games from. I consider myself a reasonably intelligent person, so I can deduce that a player can only play someone who is online. As well, look at the rest of the top 5. Neither of them have played each other.
