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Re: End Game Lights/Sound Effect Confusion?

I'm still seeing this phenomenon on the NJ Regional feed, it seems like teams rush over and deploy as soon as they hear this sound I've seen it happen at least twice resulting in a tower disable.

It's an understandable mistake, I know the rules and I still expect to see minibots deployed the moment I hear that sound, not sure it was a wise choice.

And before it is said, yes teams should always read the rules and be observant of changes like that, etc, etc, but while we have lots of rookies, we have far more veterans that have trained, almost in a Pavlovian way, that the scrambling noise means endgame, it's not very nice of the GDC to shake that up!

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