Skirmish 15

Redwing_Warrior, on Apr 17 2015 - 21:53, said: Dance,   I know that WG has stated that the reason they eliminated the Quarter Final payout in the Weekend Groups was because there were teams that were getting a first round bye with the format change.  While I understand that WG does not want to hear the complaints about the few teams each week that get this "free gold", I still believe that you are hurting more teams with this change.    Take this week for example.  There are 8 Weekend Groups.  In those groups, 14 teams have a first round bye (as close to the max number as you can get).  So in order to make sure that these teams have to "earn" their prizes, you are punishing 50 teams that will have won their first round battle but lose in the second round.  Is it really worth saving the 38,500 gold that those 154 players (assuming each of the 14 teams has the full 11 player roster) would get to deprive the up to 550 possible players on those 50 teams?  Yes, I know that most will say that those teams just need to get better and to suck it up but sometimes your team does play well and does have a good record over the long haul but just runs into those darn weekend purple teams.  Do not get me wrong, I am not saying that every team entered needs to get gold, I firmly believe that having no success means getting no rewards.  I just don't think that the removal of the Quarter Finals payout is fully justified.    The best way to counteract this "free gold" from occurring is to go back to combining the Bravo Playoffs with the Weekend Playoffs.  That way, any team that would get a first round bye (if necessary) would be the team(s) that just missed making the Alpha Playoffs.  But I know that many of the Bravo teams complained about getting beat by the weekend teams even though the had 20 to 21 battles to use as a tool to help them in the playoffs.   Yes, I know that no matter what you do, you will never be able to make 100% of the players happy.   Anyways, GL to everyone who moved on to Saturday.