Uh (Destiny)

by RaichuKFM , Northeastern Ohio, Monday, September 07, 2015, 15:33 (3461 days ago) @ CruelLEGACEY
edited by RaichuKFM, Monday, September 07, 2015, 15:44

Because that's not how competition works. Teams in the NBA, NHL, NFL, etc, don't go up against evenly matched opponents.

Isn't matching teams to other teams with similar win/loss records exactly how most playoffs work? I'm not the most knowledgeable about sportball, but I'm pretty sure that's how most major playoffs work, aside from the ones that are based on league structure, which is still an indirect skill-based measure. Why should Trials, supposedly the highest tier of competition in the game, be like a regular season, instead of playoffs?

You're making an argument that the competition should be random, but the proposed solution, that the more wins you get, the more you go up against people who have more wins, focuses the toughest challenges on the later matches, instead of just randomizing it. And that, to me, sounds how it should be?

I get that you don't want a mediocre person to be able to triumph over nine teams of other mediocre people to get to the Lighthouse, but if you are able to soundly and regularly trounce nine other teams, you're... you're not really mediocre. And under the proposed system, you'd get matched with other teams that would tend towards better and better the farther and farther in you went. Far more worrisome is the idea that some top-level guy just gets matched up against people who don't know what they're doing, and coasts to the Lighthouse on sheer dumb luck, isn't it?