Yes, which can only be broken when alliance play vastly better.
And without seeing his actual games, since he refuses to discuss details, for all we know he just ends up taking no actual southern objectives and just results in the same as turtling at SHGY anyways. Which is actually the objective of scorched earth.
It would require the majority of the alliance on the team actually cooperating. Which is demonstrably not a thing yet, and is likely why he has better games but cannot close the deal.
The moment any alliance player posts optimistically, or of success, you and the rest of the defeatist cheerleaders pounce on them and kick them to the curb.
As Fayld put it:
But you refuse to acknowledge that the apathy and defeatism is not what is holding the alliance back.
The reality is you just get lucky occasionally with an alliance team that is just much better than horde. You think it’s your strat but it’s that you just happened to get a good team. Which has always been a possible win condition for alliance.
the hardest part of calling strats and/or getting wins on alliance side is dealing with player apathy, trolls, toxic alt strat callers, rep/honor farmers etc.
It got to me so much that I was chat banned for two days. From now on it’s just simple macro call outs, if someone wants to flood the chat or the board with trolling, I’ll just ignore it move on.