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Re: Are 8 play regional reasonable?

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Originally Posted by Jon Stratis View Post

And while I didn't really see much at Northern Lights, I have to ask - was 2502's ranking caused by bad alliance matchups, or because their strategy (going for high goals) wasn't as effective in earning ranking points as other strategies (such as getting breaches)? How often did they get breaches compared to others, versus capturing the tower? From what i've seen, the dominant strategy during quals is to breach while scoring a few balls, with very few matches resulting in a capture. That extra RP for a breach really helps with the rankings!
That’s true, but going for high goals gave us a higher points per match average with leaving easy points for our alliance partners on the table. If we went for the breach every match we would have probably lost 4 matches so the extra ranking points probably would have been a net gain of zero.
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