Why are people so angry about the heroic brawl this time?

[SparkyElf-2852]

@Moghwyn-2751

Don’t forget about skill levels.

Yeah, skills levels. Tell me about it in HS… or even roulette, if you will. Before we go any furthrer, a demonstration (it’s an old one and I’ve linked it elsewhere in the context of bots, but no matter):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tav_ttqyv9Q

Let me sum up: it’s a match of a rather intelligent and skillful ‘pro’ player against a dumb BOT.

This game isn’t chess, you know.

What’s more, I’ve written extensively about the subject, don’t feel like repeating myself, so let me self-quote a little:

@SparkyElf-2852

First, in such a multiplayer game where one player wins and one player loses, there cannot generally be any ‘miracles’ and ‘wonder decks’ with e.g. 80% winrate — in fact, that number tends towards 50% (if there is that one deck that is much stronger than any other, then essentially everyone’s gonna play it, the winrate becoming strictly equal to 0.5) for any competitive deck. It’s not even chess either, so brilliant risk-calculating and decision-making can make a difference between 49% and 51%, for instance

What’s more, we aren’t even talking about the ladder here — it’s almost a closed tournament. I think you might be overlooking the fact that if one player wins, the other always loses, and the ramifications of it.

@Moghwyn-2751

If you are someone with an average roster and playing skills you might end up paying 5000 gold and still no portrait, due to getting eaten by the sharks over and over again.

So, you know, even if a ‘shark’ might have an 80% winrate in the open sea, chiefly against ‘small fishes’, if you put twelve sharks in a tank, half of them will lose on average, no matter how sharp their teeth are.

@Moghwyn-2751

You have to play way above average to not lose out.

You know, it reminids me of an old factoid how the vast majority of professors (I don’t recall the exact number, but it matters not) considered themselves above average in some study — tells something about self-esteem, but that’s not the point: you can’t have more than a half of a group perform above average, roughly speaking, by definition.

@minami-1114

Otherwise why we did not had that ridiculous backslash the other 64737558 times they done the same event?

Oh, look, another ‘ridiculous’ poster. I don’t feel like deconstructing the whole fallacy of this pile of textual rubbish, just gonna specify one more point: this whole ‘heroic brawl’ shebang has always been a terrible deal (see, for example, another old video by OG [1]), designed to drain gold or money from players, except this time it’s with the aforementioned ‘carrot’ to lure them into it.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vd0p41YLs0