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Originally Posted by AlecMataloni
I hope the GDC has learned not to over-value any one scoring aspect of the game, especially not the endgame.
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Last year the opposite complaint could have been made about the endgame: few teams did it and did it well because it was worth so little and was so difficult (a good number elevated, but VERY few even attempted suspension).
The trouble with your comment is that the GDC can't possibly know how the game is going to turn out. Go back and watch the game animation from this year's kickoff: Dave specifically mentions that to get tubes, teams will have to traverse the entire playing field. From this is can be inferred that the GDC did not expect human players to be throwing tubes across the field into their own scoring zones. I think that with Breakaway, scores ended up climbing higher than the GDC expected, which caused the endgame to be undervalued. This year the endgame was, in fact, overvalued, but I think that, again, this was caused by the GDC being unable to predict exactly how matches would play out throughout the season, and you can't begrudge them that, as the game will invariably be played, in some ways, differently than the GDC intended almost every year.