ph0enyx13
Joined: Nov 14, 2015
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Apr 04, 2016 - 01:24 |
 
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Like I have seen on the forum Verminardo say that Crown of Sand has softer teams than the more bashy Warpstone Open. Or how GLT seems to be won by a lot of faster teams where as the Wheel of Chaos is all Nurgle and Dorfs.
Is it just a difference in terms of Major vs Minor or Ranked vs Box or is there a reason for a different meta between different Box Majors? |
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Nightbird
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Apr 04, 2016 - 01:54 |
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Probably something to do w/ the prizes that can be earned is my guess. |
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seanh1986
Joined: Jul 16, 2005
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Apr 04, 2016 - 02:07 |
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some tournaments are structured in such a way that they may be more beneficial to some races vs. others.
For example, I believe the GLT has brackets which are setup so that it's mostly weaker races, meaning they have a better chance to have a "weaker" team get through the qualifiers.
Similarly, the UI has 'light' vs. 'dark', so it may be less-bashy than usual for the light side, etc. |
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Nightbird
Joined: Aug 02, 2003
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Apr 04, 2016 - 02:14 |
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| footballolb16 wrote: | some tournaments are structured in such a way that they may be more beneficial to some races vs. others.
For example, I believe the GLT has brackets which are setup so that it's mostly weaker races, meaning they have a better chance to have a "weaker" team get through the qualifiers.
Similarly, the UI has 'light' vs. 'dark', so it may be less-bashy than usual for the light side, etc. |
Ok, this answer makes much more sense then my 'guess'.  |
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harvestmouse
Joined: May 13, 2007
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Apr 04, 2016 - 10:13 |
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Wasn't the comment about the different brackets in the CoS rather than different tournaments? Box only tournaments will have a different make up to Ranked only tournaments, that's for sure. Other than that the FUMBBL Cup being the top of the top, would there really be a difference in Majors? |
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Verminardo
Joined: Sep 27, 2006
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Apr 04, 2016 - 10:25 |
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The Crown of Sand did indeed see a lot of Elves this year, though it wasn't the case in previous years. But Majors do have different metas. Some are pretty straightforward like WO, Black Cup or Fumbbl Cup, where it's basically just random draw knock out full stop. But the CoS for example has only three races per Qualifier, the WoC has Qualifiers for higher and lower TV, the UI has the Dark and Light side, the LC has the challenge phase. So yea, there is that. Still, meta, shmeta, Nurgz gonna Nurg. 
With this year's WO, the thing I commented on was no single Elf reaching the main draw. It was not that no good Elf teams or Elf coaches entered, it was just that they were all eliminated. So that had nothing to do with the meta really, it was just that the Ranked Elves performed poorly, and their Box brothers showed them how it's done in the CoS. (Of course, having some mostly Elfbowl qualifiers helped with that, but next year it could be very different.) |
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ArrestedDevelopment
Joined: Sep 14, 2015
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Apr 04, 2016 - 17:29 |
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Don't forget that plenty of people also apply teams to Majors based on the fluff - UI saw people that might otherwise have played something else play High Elves, Warpstone, a bunch of Skaven etc etc. |
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Reisender
Joined: Sep 29, 2007
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Apr 04, 2016 - 17:45 |
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The WO applies a secret +5 modifier on fouling elves, i am sure of it! |
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