Simple Win stats of 50 CTF matches

During a couple of weeks I wrote down the reasons or key actions that decided CTF matches. Mostly what opened the flag castles or what doomed the losing team. There are plenty of reasons behind the victory or loss of a team, I divided the most important I found in relation of the attacking (didn't count if winners had a treefarm, how many shops they got at base, if the losers were only camping etc...) in the following:

- Ratting: one or more builders entomb themselves underground and play offensively from there.
- Tunneling: a team as a whole participates in a similar tactic, but as something more natural (usually because of the map or castles layout)
- Bomb Arrows: opening flag rooms mainly
- Bomb Bolts: opening flag rooms mainly
- Kegs: opening flag rooms mainly
- Deserting: players of the losing team start to leave
- Catapult: both opening flag castles or throwing knights with explosives to it
- Unawareness: usually a player sneaks through the map and plays around in the enemy base without anybody noticing it
- Teleporters: transport tunnels used near the enemy flags
- Enemy traps: a team takes advantage of enemy traps
- Glitch abuse: archers or builders passing through blocks
- Team Rush: visible push of a whole team on ground
- Not so balance teams: a notorius difference between both team skills
- Griefing: self-explanatory

The results, usually a mixup of the reasons above, of the 50 matches:

Ratting - key in 21 matches
Bomb Arrows - key in 12 matches
Bomb Bolts - key in 10 matches
Teleporters - key in 10 matches
Unawareness - key in 8 matches
Tunneling - key in 7 matches
Keg - key in 5 matches
Not so balanced teams - key in 4 matches
Catapults - key in 3 matches
Enemy traps - key in 3 matches
Team Rush - key in 3 matches
Deserting - key in 2 matches
Glitch abuse - key in 1 match
Griefing - key in 1 match

The results lead us to think that usually Ratting, Bomb Arrows, Bomb Bolts and Teleporters decide the games, and the more agressively a team behaves using these four tactics the more chances of winning they'll have. This simple stats, however, could have been taken more strictly, could depend on specific maps, time of the day, things as pings, experienced players involved etc.

 

Surprising? Meh, that was predictable..

 

Yeah, after all the results are not so surprising. I started to make this match recordings to have some back arguments on a petition to make some changes to bomb bolts and bomb arrows, but I'm too lazy for that and I feel it will never really change. The info and the way I took it are not so serious after all, and I didn't count all the matches I played (unbalanced teams, ratting and griefing would have a highter value).

Just pick a screenshot of the scores in every end of a match for a week or so, then filter the nicknames. Imo it wouldn't be so precise in terms of how valuable players are: the teams are random and even a team with 2 real good players and 6 newbies will fail against a team with average ones only. It would be pretty interesting to see however, and iirc KAG Gather had those stats recorded for the players .

I can't answer about 1 single skilled knight being key in a match as they're not so bound to open flag castles only by themselves. However, those cases were surely taken into the unbalanced teams sack.