Voices of the Fallen - eliminated teams discuss what went wrong

[Sir Valimont]

The spreadsheets that I built which served as our team's source of intelligence were effective because of their design, not because of the custodianship of entering tidbits of information. To share the links would simply be to invite others to copy the spreadsheet for their own use next war and lose the advantage entirely. Actually I have little problem doing so and considered it ... I was mostly 50-50 on it. I asked my teammates and they all deferred to me. I decided against it simply because, as I said, the work is in the design and undoubtedly the spreadsheet would just be copied and used by others next time. I figured anyone who asked me by PM I would send a link to, and that most folks wouldn't be too interested anyway.

I could easily be convinced with any level of polite asking to share the document with fellow war members but -- obviously -- am not prone to feelings of sharing when people want to lecture me about sportsmanship because I'd rather keep my hard work my own. I'm sure you meant no offense by it but it's quite rude.

p.s. There are two other teams who have hidden their intelligence docs from the community as well and I think the decision is quite normal.

[QuantumT]

I didn't mean it as a lecture. I just think that if other teams have access to your ideas (which are obviously quite effective), then it will help them to improve, making the next war more competitive.

[Boingo]

I undervalued quite a few people during the draft, and I might put Boingo at the top of that list.

I undervalued quite a few people during the draft, and I might put Boingo at the top of that list.

Boingo was amazingly helpful in doing the chores every round.  I sort of feel bad for not helping him enough, but I would be more than happy to have him on my War team again.

Boingo really was amazing for us, especially since we we're almost doing tweakings at the last minute.  I tried to help him a few times with that since we had to re-do some decks after someone gives us his deck and we fell short on cards, but most of the credit is to him in taking the right decisions every time (or almost) with no or not enough testing.  Aether needs to thank you dearly and whoever gets you in next war will have no worries for vault!

Thank you.  I am actually a bit embarrassed to be called out like this given our overall record and final standing.  What Team Aether needed was a deckbuilder but all it got was a lowly deck-tweaker.

 I take this praise as a real badge of honor--both from my own teammates who were there in the trenches with me, but especially from a Master and opponent.  I think the price paid for me in the auction was fair to high given my relatively small amount of PvP experience compared with the rest of the field and having not had previous War experience.  That said, I did not sign up for the War lightly and should I decide to throw my hat in the ring next time around, I will bring all that I have to bring home more wins.

[Zeru]

I think that removing the links to the strategy is against the spirit of the event.

We didn't do that. The strategy is either shown in the threads or it was never there to begin with (debates on chat). The thing Sir made was simply calculating vault status for us, so we wouldn't have to waste much time every time we changed something. Strategy (aka salvage/discard + deckbuilding) is not touched by anyone.