I was curious how a relatively bad player like myself, who has never managed to solo Silver, has little experience in Gold or higher, has played only intermittently these last few months, hasn't maxed out Rares let alone URs, scores poorly when matched up with BSN players and has a god-awful connection to most hosts, compares to people with the 'Best of the Best' banner in PUGs. In short, how much better is the BotB than a pretty average player? Based on my totally scientific findings, with photographic exhibits (assuming I get these to work - never done images on BSN before):
Exhibit One
(A and
The last place guy has BotB; not hosting. Match parameters only partially random. The top guys both have more Gold experience than I do, and seemed to be decent players. BotB here was competent but not stellar. (And at least he didn't get himself eaten by a Ninja Crab in the final seconds of one game, like I did.) The leader impressed me, though. Good use of the TSent.
Also, this set of matches marked my own best play subjectively, although it didn't translate into big scores.
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Top guy (host) with BotB. He seemed pretty good. Not much to compare to; I was lagging out badly here, and could barely follow the match. (Even the game was confused, and kept generating nonsensical +0 messages after completion.) Pitiful performance on my own part, and my ego wants me to destroy the evidence, but in the interest of science, I've included it. The banner redeems itself.
(D)
Top guy (seen on the forum a few times) had BotB (hosted). He was good; probably the best of the BotB that I recorded. A bit laggy again. The banner looks increasingly strong. My own performance was middling, but I somehow scored well enough - probably the other randoms weren't very good.
Exhibit Two
(E)
Top guy BotB (host). I do not recall this match at all. Apparently I used a mystery assault rifle on my TSent (not an accurate one, based on headshots). I never do this; I must have been drunk. Regardless, the BotB was clearly the best player this time; another win for the banner.
(F)
Last guy, BotB (host). He went down a lot, which was odd, since he used AIU. Laggy match; Crusader shots, powers disappeared a lot. Came close to rage-quitting several times. Just an awful match. No one looked good here, other than Cerberus.
(G)
Last guy, BotB (off-host). One of my first Gold matches. Not a great showing for the BotB (getting outscored by a Gold rookie) but not a disaster, I suppose. The match time is flat-out bad.
(H)
Third guy, BotB (off-host). This ended up being a pretty good team, and fairly evenly matched. Probably the best match of the bunch from a squad point of view.
Results:
BotB finished tops in three matches, last in four, and third in one. The scrub who can't solo Silver beats BotB in score five matches out of eight. For what it's worth, BotB hosts five of eight matches (I host none). That said, BotB players average around 99 000 points, compared to 86 000 for yours truly. (For the period I recorded my results, this is a bit lower than my average.)
In brief, the BotB group as a whole performed unevenly, and averaged out to be pretty close to a normal, run-of-the-mill PUG denizen in terms of score and in my own subjective evaluation (sync-killed a bunch of times when avoidable, not gelling or using missiles frequently, getting over-run in ways that should have been predictable, etc.).
Leads me to wonder which banners people tend to view as being good signs of a player's ability, if any.
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