Suiciding is obviously not a viable option.
That being said, ofcourse people are going to get cut off with how fucking huge the lines were. On EU when an officer or single dude gets cut off the other line lets them return to their line most of the time, in my experience at least. You won't have any scenarios where the whole line is chasing after the one officer.
For the people saying that Irish and Rafael weren't going towards their own line: when you get cut off, it is often easier to run around the back of the enemy line to get back to the other side. A 30 man line charging after you obviously makes it impossible to run around them. The LG can just spread out and surround you, giving you no possible way back to your line and driving you to the map edge.
While I agree with your point on how it's typically easier to run around an enemy line to get back to your own It's also a viable tactic to cut off the officer and delay that effort, From my experience this is typically done from maneuvering from the regiment attempting it, However, what the LG did was a viable tactic and from what I can remember the first time Its happened. When this season started Risk made it a point for regiments attempting to reform to always be on the same page aka be running back towards their line before Its fully counted outside of the melee and able to reform. The reason why It's Important in this scenario is that the fact still stands that anyone cut off still has to find their way back to the line or they'll be unable to undertake any other action or It'll just turn into a cluster fuck with one man kyting running the literal opposite direction of his line, while they're able to shoot, the number of people in the event is Irrelevant to this.
By the logic of virtually every 6te member on this thread; if you’re caught within melee range you can simply run away and sacrifice yourself to avoid the melee and continue running. You weren’t being cut-off because you were afk in spawn returning to your line or because you were THAT far removed from either the front or back of the line, you were caught because we fucked you with reverses and got within charging distance. That’s your fault for getting caught. If anyone was attempting to exploit the rules it was Raf and Irish when they would continually make themselves intentional rambos to avoid an actual melee.
*Edit: Also, if you’re going to complain about melee; maybe don’t bring 5 EU’s who seemingly apparated out of thin air for this match and a bunch of guys who either hardly play, or hardly melee. Thnx
It's a tough analysis but I gotta agree with some points here.