gr8flbob:
Lyrac:
well Ill accept now because its over as far as im concerned, since I got rudely bumped to mattel POS plastic toy legend status.
Lyra, how did you get promoted to Legend? Because you sweet-talked higher ranked opponents into throwing matches to you?
I thought not!
Did you achieve Legend tier because - when your game was on - you fairly beat them? If that's how it happened (as I think it is) then you're ready to start from the tips. Yes, it'll take a while to groove your longer approaches - and your best-score 'average' will likely rise sharply until you do.
Then the average will slowly come down as you continue to refine your game. Just head out and play for fun ... the rest will happen as you do. Jot some notes along the way on what works and, just as importantly, what doesn't work in trouble spots.
The aggravation you're feeling right now will work against that scenario. Is it worth the grief?
Naahhh,
Bob
Bob I appreciate what you say, and no, I don't worry about being able to keep up with the best/rest.
My gripe, and I happen to think it is legitimate, is that I was denied being able to make legend in the way I set out to one year ago. By playing ranked rounds, knocking point by point off due to my own, yes my own ability, and not because some smart idiot in Wgt decides that the way to combat sandbagging is to arbitrarily create a system which chucks every one into the same boat, by including non credit games into their system.
I don't have a problem playing from the tips and I recognise my scores reflect that. I DO have a problem in that now I have no respect for my tier because I was not allowed to EARN it, instead of having it handed to me by default, because a higher tier either A) had a bad game B) someone disconnected or C) I had a good game in a format that has just been implemented, that was not there when I began.
So now I am supposed to suck it up and shut up, and never mind my own self respect and feelings of accomplishment that are no longer present. Yes ok, it's all about me, but I have feelings too and daresay I am not alone in my disgust at the short sighted and heavy handed abandonment by the game creators of players who do not gamble and unfairly take credits from others.
Sure I like to win. But fairly.