March Monthly AT Commentary - 3/31

Date: Saturday, March 31st
Time: Time: 1:00pm PST / 4:00pm EST / 8:00pm UTC
Place: Stream channel
Recordings: http://www.youtube.com/GWGApok

It's that time of the month again! Tune in for top matches casted by top players, and learn more about the GvG format. The technical hitches that marred last month's commentary should be fixed.

As always, we will be answering questions about the teams, the builds, the meta, or just about anything else. Post your question on our stream chat, and it will be forwarded to our commentators or answered by a stream staff member.

Note that times may have changed from last month because of the DST switchover. Prepare accordingly.

Nice, good to see this is still going. Hope to catch it live.

Thanks again, good commentary, also useful for people wanting to learn stuff.

Grats to [awsm] for grabbing yet another gold. Glad to see some more build variety and I hope everyone enjoyed the stream this time!

Cheers for the stream guys, from a complete newbie pov to gvg its very helpful to hear explanations for everything going on.

edit: what i wrote down- could that be that my observe mode lagged somehow? I know it happens and then the game is like they are teleporting and doing all previous actions really fast, but this doesnt seem to be that case..

WTF was this? I just watched the finals and the game looked like two beginners team against..

The dervishes just run behind the team instead of doing dmg in front (he runs to his base, stuck against wall, then runs back), at 16:00+ ranger runs into full GL room with Rt runner, shoots on archer and dies without doing anything, after 26:00 when the winning team do last attack against GL, half of enemy team is stuck somewhere on cliff, just putting up shouts and chants without even going into battle to defend lord?

Seems like someone really had horrible lags or they were that terrible? Dont tell me this are the top GvG teams now..
Even our rank 200 guild would go all against monk while the other team have only 1 monk present at the flag stand and runner+monk in base against two of our guys... But here? They didnt even do dmg, they just moved around them and even let other team kill them :P what the... ?

obs is RED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GORED ENGINE GOed up atm, seems out of sync on all games currently on. So much for watching MAT -.- Fix plox! Also grats to awsm

Your obs mode was/is bugged. Frequently occurs to mAT matches when updates come out.

Recording of the commentary is here: http://www.twitch.tv/guildwarsguru/b/313491647

And yea great plan to update right after the mAT and mess up observermode -_-

One of the best streams so far good job all.

Very sorry again for the stacked audio at the beginning, I forgot to mute the instance of the stream I had open!

If anyone has any suggestions on ways we can improve or new things you would like to see, please either post here or send me a PM here on Guru. Thanks!

i noticed that as well. neither team really seemed to be trying to win until the last 30 seconds when awsm just attacked the lord. either that was the worst lag in history or there was some match manipulation going on

There was an update right after the mAT, this sometimes messes up the observer mode. There was no match manipulation, just a bugged observer mode.

i don't think a bugged obs mode would account for the lack of trying to run the flag or the teams appearing to be "stuck" behind a closed gate for several minutes or a few members of the opposing team running around amidst a base filled with foes and taking very little damage. just my opinion

I watched the obs match and then the recorded one and the differences were huge. awsm was running flags, obs mode just isn't showing it. You can even see a few instances where one of them runs up to the flagstand with no flag on obs. I don't really see any other explanation.