I will say my piece and be done with it. Losing is one thing, but the manner in which this loss occurred is bullshit to a certain degree. There were rounds in which one or two people got cut off from the line and LG ran them all the way into the map edge and then told us we could not shoot at the LG who were now advancing towards us I a line. This repeated a few times. Maybe I should have expected this with the previous times we have been given a Die or Die choice from the administration, sure on paper they get away with it, but it's a pure loophole or certain interpretation of rules that only serve to help their play style of turning the match into a groupfighting tournament.
Having a heavily LG controlled moderation team will possibly help that and I'm sure I will get a response in which I am told everybody is treated equally but after this final this is not the case. Once the LG had their 6 rounds, ill gotten from our view or otherwise, the rules completely went out the window, multiple instances of no all chat slays not enforced, and the general behaviour of the LG, which is sadly expected at this point, is to be toxic and disrespectful, this had carried on in chat throughout the match, but you ignore this as it happens, but the match was not over and the referees had a job to do which they didn't. (On a side note I don't know who requested the no all chat, I was under the impression i had to agree to it or its enforced by the administration team but I think the ref said it was requested so I don't know.) I have always believed in letting the match run it's course and the referees to allow 1v1 gameplay to thrive and not to restrict it to bullshit like this, it all stems from an unwritten rule or a generalised interpretation of a very specific rule in terms of when your line is deemed to be in melee. It is all very contradictory when you have an unwritten rule in the league that you may reform and shoot when your line is all together, which we were once we had been forced to take a die or die choice.
It speaks volumes that the mighty LG feared simply being in a 1v1 formation scenario against us, so much so that this is the loophole or exploit or interpretation of the rules that they won the league on, in order to force a melee. When I asked the moderation team during the pause about this, they told me that we would be treated as rambo if this happened and that we had to all fight melee or have the rambos slain. If the rambos had been slain would we have been able to carry on playing like it's a 1v1, or forced to all meet in melee, or would the same apply if we turned and fought with no chance to get back to our line (which we were trying to do but when your being chased by their entire line, you know). You can sit here and tell me you must make an attempt to go back to your line but you know full well that we did our best to which doesn't involve running into a line of LG until we ran out of space and had to. I wonder how in that scenario could I have requested a slay of myself and Sean and had our line continue to act as a line? I imagine a decision like that, with the space we had left, would have been delayed anyway so we would be forced to melee but who knows.
Sure we didn't do ourselves any favours losing alot of rounds in which we were up in numbers, with the LG doing the smart thing of running away from our push and breaking us up, and a battle of individuals groupfighting experience do the rest, I would have accepted the loss if that was the case the entire 1v1 but sadly not. But again any man and his dog would win every 1v1 if they had the firepower and didn't throw melee to win scenarios like these against regiments who do not have access to the same level of roster. This part is oh woe is me of course but that is the consequence of a melee stack and learning how to manipulate it properly.
A lot of this may fall on deaf ears and the LG will cherish their win anyway, but I could not think of more undeserving winners especially with the manner in how they acted while the 1v1 was still to be completed.
Referees and moderation team I am sure you will have your say, or maybe not, but before the final it was all mostly minor and a relatively smooth process in every match. We had outled everybody before us within the rules for the most part, but nothing we could do when large parts of this final was conducted in this way, and we were forced, by the bullshit interpretation of rules or lack thereof, to melee a regiment in a tournament in which we had always been given the chance to play our way and have an actual contest in terms of leadership and melee, while this was just how can we win this in the shittiest way possible.
With the exception of the final and one or two other potential mishaps, thanks to the administration team and also thanks to the IB, LIR and the 1aSvea, all regiments who played as if it were actually a 1v1 linebattle.
In most cases of NANWL, nobody remembers the runners up and will only ever see the score, but I could not let this lie. Apologies to Jakester who asked to talk about any potential rounds last night but I was naturally not in the mood and wanted to give this a bit of thought.
