ACL TaToH (vs) TheViper

[pumukel]

Spoiler: Results

Game 1: MegaRandom, Mon, 5:45 - TheViper
Game 2: Islands, Per, 1:04:23 - TaToH
Game 3: Arabia, Spa, 47:51 - TheViper
Game 4: Arena, Kor, 32:24 - TheViper

 

[squeak]

cyka Tatoh blyat took g2?

 

[Nicov]

I don't want to start some boring drama but I feel that I have to ask: why there has to be a game like the first one in a league that is supposed to be "professional" and full of expert players? That game just looks like being part of some random fun tourney with no prize in which no player cares about losing. Or even some random unrated game between friends.

The other 3 games were more serious and thus entertaining to watch but that first one really ruined this match at my eyes.

 

[IvIaximus]

watermelon internet LMAO ****in királyi

 

[SMB360]

As one of the two admins (and I was streaming at the time as well with FeAge) I cringed and was just sat there with my hands on my head. However, without Masters of Megarandom, we'd only have three players here and wouldn't have a tournament. We wanted to use the settings since the Castle Age start was so distinctive of Masters of Megarandom, and we'd already removed the standard victory element so didn't want to adjust it any further. If the other games had gone this sort of way, I'd be all for a revision, but I honestly can't remember a single game from Masters of Megarandom that generated a map with such potential for farce, and the other two Castle Age Megarandom games in the CL so far turned into very legitimate games, so I feel like this was a freak event.

But I still feel bad for TaToH, even if he should have left his skirmisher defending his villagers at home like Viper did ops:

 

[pumukel]

 

[Nicov]

As one of the two admins (and I was streaming at the time as well with FeAge) I cringed and was just sat there with my hands on my head. However, without Masters of Megarandom, we'd only have three players here and wouldn't have a tournament. We wanted to use the settings since the Castle Age start was so distinctive of Masters of Megarandom, and we'd already removed the standard victory element so didn't want to adjust it any further. If the other games had gone this sort of way, I'd be all for a revision, but I honestly can't remember a single game from Masters of Megarandom that generated a map with such potential for farce, and the other two Castle Age Megarandom games in the CL so far turned into very legitimate games, so I feel like this was a freak event.

But I still feel bad for TaToH, even if he should have left his skirmisher defending his villagers at home like Viper did ops:

Yeah I understand. Don't take me wrong, my issue is not with megarandom pack (it has a hell of great maps!) but with the map that was randomly generated 11. Specially because it was castle age start... if it was dark age it would be all good. I guess it was just bad luck for both players/admins.

Anyway, I just read my first post again and it looks harsh. It wasn't my intention, just wrote it under a frustration feeling ops: The other 3 games were great, keep it up!

 

[patao]

FWIW, I think Pumukel nailed it :lol: Unlucky but hard to avoid and TaToH in retrospect probably made the wrong moves. The only game I remember from MoMR even remotely like it was Masada vs. MbL where Masada goes 0 TC trush. And even that was different because Masada did it by choice (I also still don't know why anyone was mad at him for it, done properly it might have won him the game, whereas normally he'd have no chance)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pv0SMvbCjo

 

[Miral]

tatoh played bad and thats all. This skrim should have stayed home

 

[Cutht]

Anything instead of the range and it would've been ok. Or if both were meso, a regular archer would not have scouted the enemy quick enough.

 

[smarthy_]

Just watched the vod of the first game. That is very disappointing indeed and I feel bad for tatoh, though he seemed to be a good sport about it.

@SMB I haven't looked at the script so I'm not sure, but isn't there a way to remove those weird kind of starts from megarandom? Though I'm sure if it could have been done already it would have 11

 

[SMB360]

Yeah you could but it would be a lot of work to dig through such a gigantic script remove the possibility for freak events - we got through all of MoMR on these settings with nothing really approaching a game like this. Additionally, after this CL we probably won't see a lot more Megarandom Castle Age starts unless someone runs a MoMR2, and so for regular games where people play Dark Age start, there won't be any issues.

And as has been said by a couple of people now, as much as it sucked to kick off a highly-anticipated set of games with a somewhat silly-looking 5-minute game, it was ultimately settled by player decision-making.

 

[Skittle]

just remove the non-tc-start... if you have a tc everything is fine.

 

[Ator]

111111 Reckt! The skirm wouldn't have done too much as CA can outrun it, it was only about who finds faster the other.