Random Arena not so random?

Over 50% of the time I go to RA as W/Mo, im wit 2 other warriors and a ranger or ele.

there are 3 logical explenations of your plight.

1) Anet has you tagged as to never get very far in the RA, so they pit you, and your unfortunte team, against a fully organized asian team in the Team Arenas instead of the random ones. (If by some freak accident, divine intervention, or power outage, you win... they will all be rezzed, replaced by superpowered AI, and will procede to virtualy rape you O_o) If this is your situation, quit random arenas. Your blood pressure, and not-smashed keyboards, will thank you.

2) like me, one event that pisses you off to the very core sticks in your mind to the point that it multiplies in your memory and instead of one single event, you remember a whole series of the same event. If this is the situation, just forget everything you know, its probobly a lie.

3) Lastly, Murphey's law hates you. If this is the case, make all negitive things that happen to you seem positive. This will confuse Murpheys law, and either good things will happen to you, or you will die in a freak leemur accident.

You just have to laugh when the opposing team somehow ends up with a Boon prot, a Shock Warrior, an E-surger and an SS Necro; only for you to be teamed up with a Minion Master, a Heal Area wammo*shudders*,and a Frenzy using Monk..while you're testing out a Hamstormer.

Drat, drat...and double drat! caught out again! Yes that was me.

One of the reasons for the asian teams being more balanced...this might be a reason...I believe sometimes we might be playing against a TA team. I don't know if that's possible.

Anyway...this morning... I jumped into my monk outfit...joined ra...can you believe it...my first game is with another monk.

I am now certain there is pairing going on.

Haha!

I think it's a case of all three.

The asians make us die like doofs.

If I play a warrior the chances are there will be other warriors on my team.

The point I'm making is if I play a warrior I rarely have a monk on my team. It does happen but not often. Play a monk and see how often another monk or two appears.

I've spent the last month or so in RA unlocking every skill etc. The pattern is noticeable.

Monks are getting more and more frequent that wammos build in hope to get ranks....
I had it the other day...
we won loadsa battles but we all left in end cos it took like 10 mins for each win

Oo Pardon?

Anyone ever notice how most of the time when you come up against an asian team in RA they have seemingly gotten to choose their groupmates and the team builds they end up with are incredibly balanced and effective?

I mean RA for americans is lop-sided as hell most of the time but for asians it does not seem that way.

I call BS

I call that you are just facing a team from the team arenas.

Either that or most Asian players are better than American players.

Either is perfectly possible

I've noticed this too. Its been awhile since I've ran into an unorganized asian team. I've always thought myself that their TA fight in our RA, now seeing someone else that thinks it maybe I'm not so crazy. :P

A team from team arenas can't go to random arenas.

After your team has one so many consecutive matches, they play teams from the team arena.

Happened to me too, I think I've only gone against them once or twice, but I didn't win either. (and one of them definately was organized)

I have a theory... It covers the "Why asians seem to have better teams" and "Why do I always seem to get less monks than my opponents".

In a winner-stays-on type of system, unless there are enough people playing for winning teams to keep facing off against others with an equal number of wins they're going to start being matched up against the newer teams.

So, this is why on a slow night/morning... whenever, you seem to be really unlucky in the team matchups and being pit against a lot of well balanced teams with nothing but W/Mo's for company.

Perhaps the same kind of thing happens with teams in all realms, when they run out of people to fight from their area they get matched up against foreign teams. This could explain why every asian team you come up against seem to be really well organised, they've probably won 6+ games already.

all i know is that lately every team i see that asian is an air ele, a warrior, a monk, AND a mesmer. in the random arenas. their random is NOT as random as ours.

Yes, I'm sure we all know that 10 wins switches you from RA to TA. But this is after 4 or 5 wins that we run into a team. They use TA builds in RA call that coincidence if you want, my theory is that the asian players dont have as many as the US. So maybe they have to match them with our teams. It could even happen with europe but since their names dont stand out we would probably just think they got a good random team.

Nope, Asian teams never felt harder to beat in RA for me. If anything (on a european server) they seemed weaker than most teams.

Ya I do this sometimes with my guildies. You just all count down on vent or something and hit enter mission at the same time. If all your countdown timers are the same, and the timer is above 20 seconds, you've got a good chance to be matched up with your buddies. If not, you just cancel and countdown again.

Yea, I bet ANet lets their TA join our RA since they suck at PvP anyway