Thread: This is why Random Sucks:

Damn... start inviting me boomus and I'll join when I can... I'm not a fan of random either.

I feel like I should have stayed instead of finding a scrim... I would have loved to get in on the opposite of the winning side. Captains sounds like a good idea in the future, I have seen some pretty upsetting teams myself.

I'm not advocating that every game needs to be a clean, perfectly even match, but when random places all of the best players on one side and all of the inexperienced on the other side, there's little way to make the best out of the situation. When teams are that badly stacked, you may as well be playing against bots on campaign. Regulars should easily be able to spot out the inexperienced ones and make a call before the game starts. It would be disingenuous to think that everything will be fine and then waste two hours on what should have been a campaign match for four players.

I enjoy having team captains because it usually prevents bad stacking, but even without team captains, we really should be calling a spade a spade when random mucks things up this bad and do what we can to rectify the situation before the match begins.

I'm fine with that. But for fuck sakes pick captains that play regularly and have even played the new map.

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Originally Posted by BuddyLee.

I'm fine with that. But for fuck sakes pick captains that play regularly and have even played the new map.

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Agreed. When you're so new that you don't even know who the regulars are, then there really is no point as you're pretty much guessing.

Originally Posted by BuddyLee.

I'm fine with that. But for fuck sakes pick captains that play regularly and have even played the new map.

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I know this is aimed at me, and I have to disagree with you and Bob.

I pick the two most inexperienced players as captains for a reason. I do it to split the lack of experience up between the teams. If there are two good leaders in a lobby, like myself and Walker, or Blitz or flame etc, then I will make them the two captains to make sure both teams get a leader. In the case you're talking about we had a lot of good players, but not a lot of leaders. So I wanted to split up the two newest players.

Being picked as captain has nothing to do with being bad or good at the game. It doesn't mean you lead your team during the match, it's purely for choosing teams.

I am a fan of captains, I prefer a balanced match, and I will usually always do captains. I'm always willing to volunteer to switch teams too if they are uneven, so ask me if you think it's time for a switch.

The fact is though, there are times when you're going to lose and lose badly, and you can't always blame it on teams. Eventually you have to step up and lead your team yourself and not always rely on someone else to lead you. Obviously this was NOT one of those cases because it was just so blatantly stacked, but there are cases where you'll have several good players on a team, but none of them step up and lead, and they'll lose badly to a team with leadership and direction, no stack required.