Profile of Basilone

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Tournaments are more exciting to watch with so much importance being placed on a few games opposed to something like the MLB reg season, but they aren't the perfect measure of the "best" either.

1) Luck usually doesn't balance out over such a short period of time, whether it be coincidence or RNG dice rolls. Remember that ridiculous Croc Sherman Sepha had in SNF? Just imagine if that bullshit decided the last game of the finals (I'm sure stuff like that does happen pretty often, I just couldn't think of a better example)
2) Playing better on a given day doesn't mean someone is better overall, just better on that day. The Patriots were by far the best team in the 2007 NFL season winning every game until the Super Bowl, but the Giants outplayed them that day after barely even making the playoffs.

Nobody is saying that ladder position= world rank, but a combination of level, W/L ratio and opponents beaten gives you a pretty decent idea how good someone is. Yesterday SlimShady was saying that he's never entered a tournament, but he wins about 90% of his games and beats some of the people that have placed well in tournaments, so ladder/auto isn't as useless as some people think it is.

I would think/hope competitive players care about playing the game more than their leaderboard ranking. There's always tournaments to prove who is the best anyway. I personally will be only mildly disappointed if there aren't any leader boards, and it certainly won't make me not want to play.

But over 90% of the games we are playing won't be tournaments. If there is no ladder then there isn't a very good way to seed people for those tournaments and automatching against actually skilled opponents will be even harder, and noob stomping in half your games isn't very enjoyable and you don't learn anything from it. Its not like most people have sparring partners available every time they want to play.

And if game spamming and stathacking were to be fixed, there's no reason that the ladder itself couldn't be competitive.

Off topic, the SU85 tank destroyer which is higher in tech level than a Stug- gets owned by Stugs.

No point in balancing something around dealing with the OP Flame HT because surely its going to be nerfed soon anyways.