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DeadDuck
The Legion of Spoon
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#1 - 2014-08-24 18:57:49 UTC
Is it me or this year the average pilot quality in this year AT is way lower then what we are used to see?

The number of boundry violations and awfull setups is surprising. From the usual 3-4 boundrys in entire tournements of previous years you pretty much see them happening every day in this year tournement.

Besides the gap between teams seems to have increased regarding other AT tournements in wich the good teams in AT XII are so far superior then the lower tier ones.
Larg Kellein
Bacon Appreciation Society
#2 - 2014-08-24 19:40:00 UTC
I think your memory is off regarding the number of boundary violations in previous years. Way off.
DeadDuck
The Legion of Spoon
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#3 - 2014-08-24 20:04:13 UTC
Larg Kellein wrote:
I think your memory is off regarding the number of boundary violations in previous years. Way off.


Maybe not 3-4 but for sure way less then this year... now it was a RA maelstrom and have doubts regarding the RA griffin...Straight
Forlorn Wongraven
Habitual Euthanasia
Pandemic Legion
#4 - 2014-08-24 20:36:43 UTC
I am not sure if you understand that this is a lot more adrenaline and far more stressful than normal TQ pvp.

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Tyrus Tenebros
State War Academy
Caldari State
#5 - 2014-08-24 20:40:33 UTC
I was actually thinking that the tournament piloting was improving. Many of the boundaries are clueless use of the MJDs either in arena or on a ship, and others are probably a result of the prevalence of kiting/drone setups encouraging a lot of backing away as the match gets started, and people pursuing better and putting more pressure on each other.

There's still a host of bad setups as the worst of the worst get sorted out, but the number of low-ship tinkers is more reflective of a particular style than a failure of the team (although granted some of the tinker attempts are quite laughable).

Aside from the one no-show, there haven't been any truly "comedy setups" like 3 Navy Scorps or battle badgers or something of that nature.
DeadDuck
The Legion of Spoon
Curatores Veritatis Alliance
#6 - 2014-08-24 23:30:15 UTC
Forlorn Wongraven wrote:
I am not sure if you understand that this is a lot more adrenaline and far more stressful than normal TQ pvp.


I know that this is way more intensive then tranquility pvp, trusty me, since I already have experience of 2 tournements, but watch match after match pilots going out of arenas and efectivelly screwing up entire team efforts makes me wonder.

Of course this is my opinion.
Raging Rabbit
Vetus Custodes Recruitment
Golden Shield
#7 - 2014-08-25 00:20:53 UTC
Hopefully some of the mistakes are associated with new pilots in the tournament as well, which is a good sign. Others are probably attributed to unanticipated moves like the bumping PL did to break a tinker. I believe it was said that the outcome of an engagement is determined by whoever makes the least amount of mistakes. When the adrenaline gets flowing from the risk of an fight people are going to make mistakes no matter how well practiced they are.

As Tryus pointed out, a lot less tom foolery has happened on the field this year....battle badgers, rainbow ravens, even congo lines...which I do believe shows the quality of the matches have gone up significantly. I think the closer we get to the finals the mistakes are going to be a lot less, but when they happen it will be rare to see a team recover from them. The good teams are very effective at capitalizing on minor pilot errors.
Tyrus Tenebros
State War Academy
Caldari State
#8 - 2014-08-25 01:50:11 UTC
DeadDuck wrote:
Forlorn Wongraven wrote:
I am not sure if you understand that this is a lot more adrenaline and far more stressful than normal TQ pvp.


I know that this is way more intensive then tranquility pvp, trusty me, since I already have experience of 2 tournements, but watch match after match pilots going out of arenas and efectivelly screwing up entire team efforts makes me wonder.

Of course this is my opinion.

Some of the worst errors were the result of the MJD, which if you're going to use, you should really make an effort to understand first, which people clearly haven't done.

In this I agree I'd expect better quality, but overall I think the AT has been slightly tighter than it has been in the past