Random Arena not so random?

Call it a rant if you like....but i've noticed a pattern.

If i'm a warrior i'm lucky to get a monk in ra. Once in a blue moon it seems.

Out of frustration I build a monk. Lo and behold I have 1, 2 ,3 monks in my team whenever I enter RA.

Is this sod's law? Have I offended the gods? Or is there perhaps some type of team balancing thats become unbalanced?

If its just once or twice, i'd say its just a freak coincidence. If 10 times in a row, then obviously RA is grouping all the monks together for no reason. lol

yeah it happened to me too

i was running my essence bond monk, and there you go: a 3 monk team

i run my 55 build in CA to piss off w/mo's, and there you go: another 55'er...

so funny..

I don't know about this, but I have noticed that when a player drops, they're almost always replaced by someone with the primary/secondary. So, at least when replacing a player, there is some organizing principle at work.

All I've noticed is that the Asian teams are always balanced with one monk, a warrior and two others. Every freakin' time.

Glad I'm not the only one to notice this

I agree with you. Maybe not EVERY time, but I would say that 90-95% of the time I run into Asian teams in RA they will have a monk and a warrior on their team. I don't think that's very random.

Oh yeah, that's the other thing. You can synchronize with your entrance with your buddies, and have a good chance of landing on the same team. I've never tried it myself, but I assume you do it by going to a low population district, noting the time when the next match begins, and all hitting enter at 00:00

Man, that would really piss me off. I am glad I don't PVP. I get mad enough at the monsters I don't think I could talk my wife into replacing more keyboards hehe.

Yes, I think most monks I've met in the random arena make this observation.
Most of the matches with monks tend to have 2-3 monks on the same team, it seems.
Very typical conversation;
Monk 1 - "Wow... 3 monks... x_x"
Monk 2 - "Why is it that I only ever get monks on my team when I'm a monk?"
Monk 3 - [silent]
Monk 1 - "I don't know, I just picked a monk because I was sick of being in teams without them."
Monk 2 - "Yeah, I know what you mean lolz."
Monk 3 - [silent]
Other - "woamg, 3 monks..."
[Team wins attrition victory]
Other team's whiner - "YOU GUYS SUCK MY ----" "LAME ---- ---- WUSSES HAVE 3 ----IN MONKS."

Or something like that.

Hahahahah. You two are not the only ones.

^^ Mercury's summarization was 100% right on the money, and made me laugh

<-- is either the silent monk, or the guy on the other team griping ... although it's usually just an "ahh, crap." or "you gotta be kiddin' me ..."

I'm usually that silent monk just trying to figure out if I can trick the game in to thinking my warrior is my monk so I can get one on my team for once.

It's probably because ANET wants a MONK in a RA team, primary OR secondary. If theres a bunch of w/mo's, odds are there won't be a primary monk. i have noticed that when I'm monking I get put with a bunch of monks though, not sure why that is >.<. Maybe I should just start smiting all the time )

Internet cafe trick.

Please note when you get a good team yourself. It's as easy to forget about a 20+ win streak as it is to remember a bad team.

Its totally random. What you guys are forgetting is that the good teams keep winning. The reason you run into so many Monk, Warrior, Warrior, Necro teams is because those teams win and thus keep playing and the bad combinations are weeded out.

As far as monks who seem to "always" end up with another monk, thats because its noticable. Its just as common for there to be two monks on a random arena team as two mesmers or two warriors, it's just that when you get a two warrior team you it doesn't stick out in your mind. If you don't believe me, play in 100 different RA teams and keep track of every team and see what the statistics say.

I will, I play a great deal of RA and I will track and post my results next week

haha alcohol is your IGN L Plate or something? you were in random arena for like 3 hours today talking about this XD

ive noticed that sometimes the team aren't really random, but a lot of the time it seems ok for me.

This is RA teams... If you find 1 good group you win to up to 10 and maybe more if your team is really good because after 10 its strait to TA. But it always seems when I PvP it is like 75% of the time I don't have a monk and face a more "ballanced" team and 20% of the time actually getting into a ballanced team and start winning and 5% of the time I get into a ballanced team and kicked the living s--- out of me because the other team seemed to know our build for some odd reason...

Yeah, L Plate was the name, and he was using these exact same sentences.
I beleive me and him joined forces to replace the word 'noob' with the german word for stupid, 'doof', however we gave up after 12 minutes