Will the 2016 World High Score be Set in Eliminations?

[BrennanB]

Originally Posted by MooreteP

No, people seriously like... are not upset if you choose to call "things" eliminations instead of playoffs.
It's in the Game Manual, that the matches that are played after alliance selection are referred to as Playoffs.
It's also suggested in the Game Manual that we refer to the "balls" as "boulders", but you are welcome to call them "spheres", or even "tetras".

The Cheval de Frise could be the Quadruple Orthogonal Balancing Bridge, and the Rock Wall is really just a Step.

I am considering referring to this years game as Aerial Frenzy Ascent Rebound Tower Rush.


"Language is a Virus from Outer Space" ~William S. Burroughs

I misunderstood your point then, apologies. I thought you were implying that the word playoffs was somehow nicer and more kind than the word eliminations, and thus we should use it.

Nonetheless I don't see much point of us trying to point out and change vocabulary for things that are virtual synonyms/derailing a thread even further over semantics. That's just picky. The game manual may be the rules for stronghold, but it isn't the rules for the English language. May as well time travel back to 2009 and demand everyone call coaches "commanders" and human players "payload specialists" because the words they use are pretty ridiculous sometimes.

Originally Posted by Sperkowsky

Well the 'world' high score will be set at IRI.

But, the season high will be either set in division elim's or on Einstein.

Well IRI usually has altered rules that allow the scores to significantly increase, so you can't really say that was the "world highs score"

I don't have the data in front of me, but I seem to recall it's about a 50/50 split for world high scores being set at worlds/at another event. With the most common event setting the world high score being Waterloo (I think it was like 3 times, but foggy memory) (even over top of a specific division) Worlds often really isn't that much different than say a winning alliance at a regional.