how often was the brit faction played? more than 10times?
talk more about your statistic knowledge...its funny bro.
I wonder WHY would that be the case. Why didn't Refero or Hans brought them to the finals were serious games were at stake (the only 2 players who decided to use them at all during the qualies).
In fact, why not check what all the finalist were playing during it and before ? Or even better, add USF into the mix and compare it to GCS 1.
When you have people who "mained" certain factions dropped them completely, that's a big red flag. Say, Devm's with USF and HH with UKF.
It's also "funny" to compare the ratio of factions picks during the qualies between the overall stats and the ones who made it into the finals.
Allied faction picked was basically at a rate of 4/7 SU, 2/7 USF and 1/7 UKF. On the other hand, finalist had a 80% SU pick (84 over 105 games). Honorable mention to HH who brought both USF n UKF into the mix, because if that wouldn't be the case, both USF/UKF turnover would had been a joke. Refero picked only 3 times UKF (lost in all) over 13 games, Luvnest used it once (and lost) over 14 games. He did use USF once. Same with Von and Jesulin (1/18 and 1/12 respectively).
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Going back to topic. Just take a look at what Nosliw/SturmP/Stark said. Addressing the PUMA is basically going to fix the issue. It could be less of a retreat wiper but i'm not sure there's an easy way of reducing that in comparison to small arm fire. You can't just cut down DPS in the same way.