Board Thread:Current Episode Discussion/@comment-11295248-20141224023901/@comment-25063315-20141224172744

Finished at 1081, would've pushed harder knowing what I know now.

3 Day wins.

First team was good participation-wise, but I was the top hitter, and that isn't a good thing. Just like last TvT, nobody was hitting last hour on Day 2 (WTF?), so we lost by about 500k as I couldn't launch and hit myself fast enough. Next team was horrible...now two wins followed by two straight losses. Wanted that Megs weapon bad (super pissed now that I know shit was tripled). Last team was good and we had a top hitter with not much more deck power than mine but cubes to burn and at least three other guys besides myself willing to burn through cubes. Smoked Drunkenmonkey or however he spells it by a few million, but ran up the score high. Day 6 came and I knew we would pay for it, as we were against Psoriosis or whatever his name is (normal T1er) against us. Dude had a deck full of MTM Primes. Guy must have went to sleep at midnight, because we passed and picked up about ten mil on them. Dude woke up and wasn't having it, ran up 30 mil by himself, next guy on his team had 2 mil.

3 Soundwaves and a bunch of Insecticons...shit...all useless shit. At least the Soundwave art is cool, but the only place I'll see it ever again is the Cyberdex, as this shit is fodder.

Medal pulls were nothing.

Went through only half a Teletran for half a shitty Sideswipe.

And, I don't care what you say about the awards page, Andrew, I saw Starscream well into Day 4 as the Day 4 prize, so did a bunch of guys on my last team. Regardless, changing rules and prizes mid-stream is just shit, wether it's on Day 4 or after Day 1.

Congrats to the rest of you that got what you wanted and needed, condolences to X, been there once or twice, buddy, so I feel you.

On the flip-side, guys like myself who normally T2 but didn't have the chance or ability to this time are now royally fucking out of wack as guys that T1 and T2'd this time have 3x the more powerful cards and it just upsets the balance. It's just shit. Had they informed us all, maybe it would've been different, maybe a few of us would've pushed harder. It's just like Me King Grimlock all over again, it changes the dynamic for all the wrong reasons. I'll never T1 again because I'm not going to pay to do it, to get that deck power right-sided. They can blow me.

I get closer to retirement daily just as GoC and a few others (too bad you don't get a pension for retiring from this shit for all the time put into it). If I don't see something rather impressive in the next few weeks, it might be time to ride off into the sunset for good...