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Moral of the gauntlets

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"Never assume who will win a voting gauntlet"

"Taking this upcoming loss with honor."

Seems legit.

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Pretty funny indeed, but I think that what he meant is "don't assume who is going to win from the start". At this point in the game, it's pretty easy to predict the results.

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Sorry. I'm not a native English speaker, and I've read that the pronoun "he" was non-exclusive, so I often use it when I'm not sure of the other person's gender... Is it better if avoid doing that in the future and refer to other users by their handle?

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refering by name is good, but using the pronoun "they" is gender neutral. I.e. "They said Ike is a good unit, but I think Ryoma is better." Although some will insist that you shouldn't use it because it could be mistaken for plural, in context, almost every native english speaker recognizes they as a gender neutral pronoun. The use of he as a gender neutral pronoun can be seen as somewhat outdated and sexist.

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I'm puzzled that people don't hold their flags in the final hours and try to let the other side give them a multiplier. Hold until the last hour, when there won't be a multiplier for the other side. That's why Grima lost last round, and it would probably be why if Ike loses this round.

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Well, I kept saving my flags and now I won't get a chance to use them.

By the way, most people don't really care how much they are contributing to their team: they just want to get as many points as possible.

Also... This mode doesn't really incentivize teamplay. Only the last few hours really count, and being on the losing side in the last hour is actually advantageous. To be on the losing side the team should avoid getting too many points. Meanwhile, each player's individual reward escalates in proportion to how many points they have, so... Yeah.

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What people don't seem to realize is that 500 feathers for the team win is better than 200-400 more feathers for a higher rank on the team. How much does one climb with 20 000 points anyways?

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The moral is that you're just a drop in the bucket in voting gauntlet, and your vote doesn't really matter. At least it's not like real-life where the same holds true, but also your life can potentially be altered in unwanted ways through the vote of the majority.

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I'm gonna assume you barely contributed to your team because every flag and point does count towards the end, especially in the final round where 400 flags will be change everything.
For a previous example, look at Ephraim v. Chrom where the was no multiplier and every player was valuable, for a more modern example look at the multiplier wins and the times where whole gaps were closed or lessened to give the players an actual fighting chance.

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I got almost 900k points on Team Ike. I don't think the scores are ever close enough for 1 person to be able to make a difference. I think the scores are usually billions or hundreds of millions of points apart. Maybe I'm misremembering though.

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I am happy to say my contributions mattered and team Gunny came through! Yay for the underdog big sis, thanks for the good and quite even match team Ike. ^_^

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