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Sunday Community Skirmish #41 (Signups for Sunday 8th March)

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c-ponter:
The layout itself worked really well  from what I saw.
Though I think it was the first time I have seen the Gents take a loss in a rather unsportsmanlike way, and that was only because a slow mo bug bear the end of the match caused a 25sec respawn to take over 2 mins, making the loss all that much more frustrating.

Kamoba:
Yup Pyramidions still work, they just require people to make choices more in advance than they used to.
Minotaur OP? Nope, its a fun gun but not game breakingly powerful :)

Ban maps? Well I was joking when I said Ban dunes, because its my least favourite map lol

Slow Mo bug certainly hit a lot of matches my guess Watchmaker did not hit the servers with the mallet quick enough.

Skrimskraw:

--- Quote from: c-ponter on March 09, 2015, 06:30:41 am ---The layout itself worked really well  from what I saw.
Though I think it was the first time I have seen the Gents take a loss in a rather unsportsmanlike way, and that was only because a slow mo bug bear the end of the match caused a 25sec respawn to take over 2 mins, making the loss all that much more frustrating.

--- End quote ---

I wouldnt call it unsportsmanlike, since if they didnt kill your last ship within time, you would have won. They were faced with either lose or win mid engagement.

Its a bug, we cannot do anything about it. We cant make indepth rules about restarting servers etc. when the timer has been running for so long. if it was the start of the match and slowmo hits we would probaly have changed to a different map if both teams preferred it.

we'll keep an eye on paritan and decide later this week if we want to take it out of the map pool.

nanoduckling:
I wouldn't call it unsportsmanlike either (unless there was something I missed either at the time or in the replay footage). With the exception of a couple of jokes from the Gents about the slow mo (which seemed in good humour) and a perfectly reasonable question clarifying the rules, the grumpy comments are from the Starbards saying what the Gents obviously cant. No one wanted that match to end that way, not the Gents, not the Starbards, not the refs, not the casters, not the folks watching. It was shaping up for an exciting finale, had the slow mo not happened the Gents had about a minute thirty to get a kill. Instead a server bug made the result a coin toss dependent on if a pyra died quickly enough or not.

This community is very good when it comes to sportsmanship. When a team asks for a pause it is almost never ignored, heck even in events which don't allow pauses. A couple of weeks back when we lost to a coin toss everyone was grumpy then too, Hydra making it clear they didn't want to win that way.

I didn't see anyone cast aspirations on their opposition, or the ref, or the organisers. Some folks might have some suggestions about how the rules might be adapted, although I don't think much can be done in this case for an event which has to be run quickly (except maybe gently encouraging better regression testing from Muse). Everyone gged or their equivalent and moved on. Folks were just pissed because they wanted to know how the story ended. I don't think sportsmanship is about not being grumpy when things don't work out. It's about not blaming things that are unfair on folks who aren't responsible, or are simply enforcing the rules. I continue to hold the Gents in high regard in this respect.

c-ponter:
I didn't mean that the way in which they won was unsportsmanlike, they played Vetter than us that match, we made so many mistakes we didn't really deserve to wi n either way ( and I don't think we would have won that engagement in real time either) Would it have worked better if I said it's the only time if seen the Gents truly p*seed off about losing a match? ( not just upset about losing, but I know at least 4 of our members  including myself that were really annoyed)
But no I agree that the rules shouldn't be changed to accommodate for bugs like that, as you said it's nobody's fault, maybe next week we will win a match because of it? XD

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