Pittsburgh Regional May 15th 2010 - The arena

[geraptis]

My first impression of the arena was good. Then I tried to play defense. There was none to speak of. It was especially irritating that the offense had places to hide but we did not. I get that it is really difficult to put up any barrier on defense without making it too strong, but that doesn't mean that all barriers need to be useless.

The pod area was very unique. Each had to have two of it's own pod zones, one large one with the rule that you had to have your lights on before you entered, and one small one where you actually tagged the pod from. The small zone was too small to enforce all the regular rules, like having your whole body in it. The rule was that your headset and phaser had to be in the pod zone, effectively your feet didn't matter.

This was one of those arenas that I wish the teams were 7 or 8 players.

[rave]

And offensive arena in Pittsburgh? Who would have thought . That's why they call it the Pittsburgh Rush George! I would imagine any arena with more then 2 energizers per team would probably end up being highly offense based. It just makes it so much easier to design arenas with offense in mind

[Jabberwock]

Yeah. Nearly all of the D felt like playing the traditional finger. The middle felt more like the traditional D, but it couldn't defend the Pod all that well.

Centipede raped both me and my childhood when I was forced to defensively 1v1 him in our game against his. I just couldn't find a way to cat-and-mouse or pull anything remotely deceptive with this layout... He definitely proved who the better dog-fighter was. It seemed like the majority of the deep neg's that were posted in the stats were on defensive players. Definitely offensive-friendly, which is refreshing. I'm actually looking forward to playing this over the next few months. It will definitely force defensive players like me to learn better dog-fighting and in-your-face Laser Storm. Seeing that I want to get better as an offensive player, this is the perfect arena for me to do so.

[Zalgax]

Exactly the point of it's design. Were you aware that I was forced into playing defense after 2 games of getting the crap beat out of me on offense? I was +10 to 20 every game after that. It was awesome. The defense is an ACTIVE defense. You can't just rely on chilling in your spot waiting for the offense to run at you, because you will get hit from the 7's or from the side finger thingy. For me, an offensive player by nature, this defense worked perfectly for my playing style. A little boring sometimes though. The other team could easily stay our of my field of vision completely and i found myself floating around looking for people.

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