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Quoted from Starkie

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I don’t understand why this is a problem

It is a problem. For example, a team which wins three games and loses four would have more points than a team which draws all their games.

The GC was d2m’s idea. If I’m remembering things right he added it because he felt there were too many cases with draws where one team was better but failed to achieve the win for various reasons like luck etc, as well as wanting to create a system where the difference between teams would be a lot closer and even the smallest skill difference would be noticable in the amount of points gained thus making it more competitive.
However, he didn’t want to take away the 1 point gained on a ‘draw’, hence the Golden Cap instead of simply making a Golden Cap round to decide who gets 3 points.

Also theres this problem with score where lets say team results are: 5:4gc(2 points for team A, 1 for team B), 5:4gc(2 points for team A, 1 for team B), 2:4(0 points for team A, 3 points for team B), which means (if you are all catching up) that Team A won 2 maps while scoring 4 points, and Team B won 1 map while scoring 5 points. Now how can we know which teams wins, the one with more points or more map wins?

Or just make it a normal round.

Remove the timelimit of 10minutes and just make it a sudden death round.

or

Make it so that draws are legit and each team receives one point.

Is that simplez.

Cheers

Byte

Quoted from Scissors

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booriiiiiing

Not at all. An entire game could be so fucking close and end on a draw. It being a draw doesn’t mean the game was slow and boring at all.

Quoted from Scissors

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Sure, but it’s even better when it all comes down to the last round.

But it’s more trouble than it’s fucking worth imo

Draws were removed because not all maps offered an equal distribution of results. At the time Gravelpit was notorious for upsets, someone ran the stats and proved that draws were much more likely on Gravelpit.

5CP, A/D and CTF all featured in the map pool at the time and the fixtures you draw for the season are random, so in order to make the system fairer map draws were removed. You either won or you lost; this was what people wanted at the time, but the admins added the caveat of golden cap scoring – I guess to soften the blow of no more draws or to ease the transition?

I agree with the OP and have raised the issue every season I was part of the ETF2L team.

In relation to some of the other comments, I don’t think you can reasonably distribute points based on round difference for the same reason points for draws were originally removed – not all maps are equal!

Max win difference of 5 on 5CP, max win difference of 3 on KOTH, max win difference of 2 on A/D. Even within the spectrum of 5CP maps can you say that 1 round on Badlands is equal to 1 round on Granary?

The Wireplay scoring system is utter folly, as is the standing ETF2L Golden Cap scoring system. Do I really deserve 1 point for losing more slowly? It should be all or nothing! Also scrap that 10 minute timelimit bullshit for the love of gad.

tl;dr No draws because maps are not equal. A map win should be the only way to earn points in ETF2L.