War #3 - Voices of the Fallen

[ddevans96]

Since teams are now being eliminated from War, we decided to create this topic.

This topic is for teams to discuss why they lost and educate people in future wars so they don't make similar mistakes. It is also for people still in war and people outside of war to congratulate and console the fallen teams.

Final Standings:

Team Fire:aether Team Aether:entropy Team Entropy:underworld Team Underworld:death Team Death:earth Team Earth:time Team Time:darkness Team Darkness:air Team Air:light Team Light:water Team Water:life Team Life:gravity Team Gravity

[jippy99]

Why we lost: Me and penalties (penalties are not included in me).  I lost us 100+ cards in matches and we lost some 100 cards to penalties.
Advice to next war's team : Make sure everyone on your team is correct with the decks/vault/salvages/discards and make sure all changes are changed in official posts.  We lost 50 cards approx. due to that.

[ZephyrPhantom]

I'll start.... (darn you jippy)

Team Light should be taken as a lesson to not only future masters, but future war strategists as well. As a master, your team is a high responsibility, and when the next trials start I would like all the applicants to please consider what you plan for in War 4 - Coinich did a great job keeping us together but IMHO, we would have rather avoided our situation with the current master we had. Considering team activity and schedule in general is important as well - I often had a lot to deal with (more so than I often appear to have to work with) and sometimes our inacitivity forced all the work onto a few select members.

In short, Team Light's weakness was activity, from my PoV. We had the power, but clashing times just wouldn't agree.

That being said, I respect Gravity carrying on like they did even after most of their team disappeared.

Water played it out to the end well, and I think one thing I especially liked just from a quick glance was the decks - I wasn't present at many of their battles but they must've been fun to play against, and their sportsmanship sticks out well too.

Good games to Air and Life as well - I haven't much to say due to the fact that I have not looked at enough data but I feel there was effort regardless of situations that occured.

Just my  , I hope the other teams will participate in this as well and give their honest opinion.

[TheForbiddenOracle]

The only question now is whose next

[Newbiecake]

I personally have cost my team 24 cards this entire war; all from decklist editing penalties. It was my lack of communication that had led to these mistakes. My involvement with several extracurricular activities led to weird schedules and somwtimes it was hard to get together to talk with my team. All in all, communication and commitment is key in major events like War.

 We lost as a whole, despite how much mistakes each of us have made. It's time to reflect, leave those mistakes and move on without blaming ourselves and look for our positive things to expand and improve upon for the next war.
I'm not going to talk about other teams because I don't know much about them and might offend someone...

[thatnewguy]

Uhmmmmm what to say about team gravity, we fell because we didn't have much of a team at all? lol.

No team communication for a long time, little help on everything, and just team went downhill as everyone was just, well, gone.

[TheIdioticIdiot]

it was really bad for gravity this war

[PlayerOa]

We got a 120 card penalty, 'nuff said.

[ralouf]

BE ACTIVE ! (like me

[The_Mormegil]

Well, I said my part in the secret section, but the main thing is: try to be preemptive. Don't wait for the deadline. Have your decks ready at least one day before the deadline. Don't edit them at the last minute.

[TheIdioticIdiot]

gravity was just being pummeled...
SV quits... (fortunate for me, as that's how I got in)
GG quits...
jmdt quits...
replacements and some original members inactive and need subs...
*sigh*

[Zeru]

Some of you could find my post rude, but this is exactly the kind of war I wanted to avoid. I will continue to promote high standards of playing.
Some teams got destroyed by their own inactivity. Some others accumulated so many mistakes in their vault that they literally got a crushing penalty. My team did a terrible job this war, but we keep our errors to a minimum. That alone got us so far. I wish that next war we will have 13 teams full of active people capable of flawless playing.
The problem is: who knew that so many would quit the event so early.