Game 1 – I get 4 randoms, opposed to 5 man team (which includes 3 engineers). My team literally gets spawncamped. Voluntarily. They walk out of spawn into the enemy AoE and die instantly. I get around the edges, easily, and win a few 1v1s but their teammates come to help them and I can’t get a decap or a spike. It’s effectively a 1v5 because my team is permanently dead and seems to think that’s the goal of the game. Lost 500-5.
Game 2 – I get 4 randoms. 3 of us are guardians. 2 are AFK at start of game. Other team has at least 3 teaming together. The same 2 resume afking after running out and dying once. Another one starts telling everyone how bad they are while constantly dead at far. Again, I can easily win the 1v1s but they rotate and end it before I can get a stomp or decap, and I’ve only got one guy helping me (two afk, one too busy telling us how good he is and how bad we are to play the game) against 5 of them. It was a effectively a 2v5. Lost 504-27.
Game 3 – I have 2 together, 2 randoms. They seem to have 2 together also (although the action was really frantic so I didn’t have time to see if they were the same guild or just same acronym). Really, really, close match. It ends up timing out with us winning something like 477-454. I won a few 2v1s which made up for my team constantly going 3v1 on their tank. But I also had one noticeably skilled teammate who kept rotating at the right times. They had a guy who kept trying to use their treb and couldn’t really defend it, which easily could have cost them the 20 some pts they lost by. Overall a few good players and few average ones on each side. A good matchup!
As a result of this, I lose a point in my rankings, because apparently losing 2 matches you have no chance of winning counts more than winning a match that is competitive.
Your system is broken Anet.
