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Cogs Pick & Pun
Phoebe:
--- Quote from: Linen Murakami on April 22, 2013, 08:50:35 pm ---
Paddling won over Polaris 5-1. Yet the community picks gave them both very even odds despite The Paddling's track record. Why do you think that is?
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Polaris had been given a lot of (not entirely but partially justified) praise for using a blenderspire last time;- and people were genuinely suprised that it "worked" - it made them cocky and no one expected them to be so confident in it that they'd be stupid enough to take two spires against Paddling on Duel at Dawn
N-Sunderland:
--- Quote from: Phoebe on April 22, 2013, 10:47:57 pm ---
--- Quote from: Linen Murakami on April 22, 2013, 08:50:35 pm ---
Paddling won over Polaris 5-1. Yet the community picks gave them both very even odds despite The Paddling's track record. Why do you think that is?
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Polaris had been given a lot of (not entirely but partially justified) praise for using a blenderspire last time;- and people were genuinely suprised that it "worked" - it made them cocky and no one expected them to be so confident in it that they'd be stupid enough to take two spires against Paddling on Duel at Dawn
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Apparently they had a last-minute strategy change. Somebody on their team took an executive decision and decided to go double Spires, which apparently confused the hell out of the rest of them. They don't actually think the Spire is good. They realize that it's a terrible ship. I think we need some clarification from somebody on the team as to what happened exactly.
Anyways, I think people were predicting Polaris to win because that's what they wanted to see. At this point, a lot of people seem to want to see The Paddling go down (and I'll admit, some diversity at the top would be nice). So they optimistically vote for what they want to happen, instead of the realistic result.
Captain Smollett:
I personally like watching the Paddling go into the gladiator pit and emerge victorious week after week.
I'm also completely unbiased in this conversation. Ask anyone.
Honestly though, I think having a repeating champion adds drama to the matches and creates for some interesting dialogue.
zitruskiller:
--- Quote ---Polaris had been given a lot of (not entirely but partially justified) praise for using a blenderspire last time;- and people were genuinely suprised that it "worked" - it made them cocky and no one expected them to be so confident in it that they'd be stupid enough to take two spires against Paddling on Duel at Dawn
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This is only my opinion, and it can disagree with the opinion of my team.
We won PaFa not because spire was a good decision, but because we just had a better crew on my ship (pyra). If you watched closely, just all times when we faced pyra 1v1, we killed it, and then the other ship. The decision to take 2 spires on duel at down was spontaneous, and i totally disagree with it (actually i, as a cap, will never fly spire at cogs) but it was not totally cocky, one of the reasons was that we already won ducks on dunes with that setup couple of times. It was just a public game, we had not full crews, something like 6v6 players, but that games made us belive that its real. (correct me if im wrong, paddling, because i was not there, when we did it). Im sure we had chances to do that again, the only reason, why we lost is that we played disgusting in that match, and of course, well played, ducks, as usual.
Veyka:
--- Quote from: zitruskiller on April 23, 2013, 05:46:04 am ---
--- Quote ---Polaris had been given a lot of (not entirely but partially justified) praise for using a blenderspire last time;- and people were genuinely suprised that it "worked" - it made them cocky and no one expected them to be so confident in it that they'd be stupid enough to take two spires against Paddling on Duel at Dawn
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This is only my opinion, and it can disagree with the opinion of my team.
We won PaFa not because spire was a good decision, but because we just had a better crew on my ship (pyra) if you watched closely, just all times when we faced pyra 1v1, we killed it, and then the other ship. The decision to take 2 spires on duel at down was spontaneous, and i disagree with it (actually i, as a cap, will never fly spire at cogs) but it was not totally cocky, one of the reasons was that we already won ducks on dunes with that setup couple of times. We had not full crews, something like 6v6 players (correct me if im wrong, paddling, because i was not there, when we did it)
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Yeh, the impression I got from watching the PaFa match was that the Polaris Pyra was very effective, and that the two ships stayed together well, and as PaFa trying to focus the spire and ignoring the Pyra (which didn't end well) combined with their blenderfish not being very effective.
I was also wondering why Xemko wasn't flying.
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