Yes, for a player of ACCM's caliber, I would call anybody outside the top30 "significantly less-skilled / lower-rated".
It's not as if Hoang is a top10 player.
That's exactly the problem with using "highest ever achieved rating" as the ranking criterion. It means that a serious contender can...
Hmm, nice selective choice of data. Your list continues, however:
Win #11: big
Win #12: prisma09.twitch (+12 ELO with #11)
Win #13: URU | BadJoke (+3)
Win #14: prisma09.twitch (+8)
Win #15: chart (+7)
Win #16: Hoang (+7)
Win #17: Hoang (+8)
And suddenly we are at +60 ELO from farming...
Honestly, inviting TheViper leaves a bad taste, especially as there is no good reason to not announce it together with Tatoh's invite.
Not it comes about like "Damn, we can't afford to not have TheViper in; ok, let's spare him the ladder grind ..."
Streaming is a good point, although I doubt, every contender will stream all their games when we reach crunch time. But we shall see.
Obviously, no serious contender will blatantly violate fair play. But if you put 9k guaranteed for a top4 spot on the ladder at a specific point in time, there...
It would be, if there weren't so many ways of abusing the system to push your rating (dodging, farming, trading, cheesing, and the list goes on, probably).
Nonetheless, the last days before the deadline are going to be funny. And probably full of juicy drama...
It's amazing how people are still obsessed with Nili.
What in your opinion would be any different now for Age2 without Nili or his decisions that "passed the limit"?
Memb's decision was definitely not based on the fact, that Viper (or any other pro) is tired of playing Arabia.
But I agree that GL has developed into a monopoly on the competitive scene; I mean, you talk about a GL podcast on a decision by Memb, without even considering his own reasoning. That...
I think, the main difference is, that the top 6 (except for Liereyy) have been getting a full-time salary out of the game for a while now, and are all very very experienced in the game.
How do you compete against GL and streaming money, and the game knowledge of Viper & Co?
It would require an...
I am experiencing the following two annoying phenomena:
1. When force-dropping food with the new hotkey, the vills will go idle later, when their current food source, e.g. a cow or sheep, is finished, instead of just moving to the next cow or sheep (haven't tried shift+Q-ing it, yet).
2. When...
In Feudal, there is no answer to lancers. So, when your opponent is much faster to castle age and has access to them, you really are in trouble.
I think, however, only the Mongol lancer might have a balancing problem.
In head-on melee fights, knights are still a lot stronger.
The main metric should always be average team rating vs. average team rating.
But this can only determine, how many points the whole team looses or wins.
Splitting these points within the team is where things get tricky.
One way can be based on the in-game point score: if you are above the...
In a classical ELO system, the change in rating after one game is supposed to reflect the actual performance in the game compared to the expected performance (based on the rating before the game).
While in a 1v1, this is straightforward, as the actual performance can simply be judged from the...
1. I don't think, that is a problem. Generally, teaming up with lower-rated players (over several games) will result in an ELO below the true strength for the high-rated player (for the reasons you described in the OP), and an ELO above the true strength for the low-rated player. Anyways, if you...
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