yisliu

Every year that the Altador Cup has run, it was always impossible for a team to repeat a win. For example, DC won last year and this year couln't even make top 4. Why is this?

Neopets has shown that it is not the largest team of players that win. However, it is much closer to either the average score per player or maybe comparing median scores. Median scores are much more likely because of the number of draws. However, regardless, it shows why a first place team never wins again because new players want to join a team proven to win. Mob mentality. New players however can't play that many games and win with a large margin. They bring down a team rather than hel it to future success.

Now how does his affect RI and KI? Well, Neopets never prevented someone from joiing a team if they were not on team. They ONLY prevented people from swithing. Switching probably would even it out because someone like KI(the staff) last year might have switched from Maraqua bcause it was not a top team. However that said, new players were notbarred the chance to partcipate. Many players who are new and joined during the 4 days of finals "most likely" joined KI because they were seeded first. Most people tend to join the best team. What this did was increase the amount of new players. New players tend to not pay much since if they played alot, they would have joined in the beggining. This dropped the avg score and median score because most new players probably only played 1 or 2 games a day.

This can even be correlated to an earlier event this year. In the first 5 days of the event, RI was first. However, they subsequently dropped to 2nd. This I think was ue to the same effec. New players joining RI causing RI's average to decrease a little, this allowed KI to take the lead. However, by the middle new players saw that thre were finals. They probably made the plan to join after finals to be garanteed in joining a winning team. Thus, during Day 6 to the finals, KI kept their lead and extended it a bt due to RI being a little weaker. By finals, those palyers quickly joined the 1st seeded teams and helped influence the outcome.

Remember, this is just my speculation.

~yisliu

I would like to ask whats the difference between Starting Player and Reserve Player.

Read the thread before posting? This was already posted....and answered

That is awarded for who joined the winning teams in the finals.

The thing is people think your theory is wrong hence why they are posting full stats. It is slightly more complicated with YYB goals a factor also.

~yisliu

Yooyuball

Goals Scored 284

Goals by Lilo Blumario 162

Goals by Jair Tollet 76

Goals by Fenny Vail 23

Goals by Gordo Gunnels 23

Saves by Clutch Billaban 85

Number of Wins 56

Number of Draws 1

Number of Losses 1

Slushie Slinger

Games Played 9

Top Score 621

Make Some Noise

Games Played 71

Top Score 7,607

Rank 1

1. What are you most proud of? (i.e. your yooyuball plays, your MSN plays, your top score on YYB etc.) Nice MSN scores for me, all were 6k+

2. Are you happy with your results? Tup for the time I put in.

3. Were you better this year than last year? Last year I only played like one game cuz I was on faerieland :$ hehe

~yisliu

Is it only trough YYB? So SS and MSN don't count for points? Then why'd I play :( hehe

~yisliu

+4 to hitpoints!!!!!!!! :)

~yisliu

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What's relationship between your current points, to prize point?

I know last year, 25k was max prize. However, I doubt anyone won 25k YYB games...which is impossible.

Also, is it by rank?

All rank 0's get this amount, rank 1s that amount and so forth? Cuz I think everyone gets like a multiple of 10/25?

~yisliu