So how do you like formats other than 1v1?

Now I ask this for a few reasons. Most people do not like this, one:because it can be a bit broken, and two: because if you do not do it with a group of friends but with strangers, you lose by default at times.

Personally at first I loved 3v3 and 4v4. I think that when I was really bad (I am prob still sort of bad, though NapE and whoever else did 3v3s with me can judge) other players could compensate for my poor game, esp early game, leaving me to mass something like vrays or whatever and go for gg. Or they just distract the opponent long enough for me to build an economy, an army, and help out.

But then lately, that is particularly today, I hated 3v3 and 4v4. Only just making NA, I went to do the quali matches, and only won 3 of 5 for 3v3. The upsetting thing is when you look at replays, and see that your apm is higher than that of your team mates combined, and your income is double, and that you pretty much lost by default. In the other game, it was worse, with it being virtually 1v3 as my team mates just massed marines and zealots in their base for 15 minutes while I expanded twice, went mass stalker ball, pushed two opponents back and then got overrun by mass hydra and 20 or so vrays. And my team did....nothing?

So it is upsetting, that my enjoyment of such formats had to nosedive. Though there are some wonderful 3v3 and 4v4 maps.

I think I just wanted to rant a little bit. Give me your thoughts or post your stories (good or bad) ^_^

I don't really care for team games as such, but I do like 3v3 and 4v4ing with other pteam members. I have enough trust in their skills to go for something stupid (mass sentries!) and we're normally goofing off through voice chat anyway so who cares if we win. Especially when Nape is getting cannoned from below and ling rushed from the front at the same time while screaming at us that's he okay. Actually, Nape tends to do something utterly ridiculous in every game he's in, now that I think about it. He may not win, and he may look like an idiot doing it, but he ... uh yeah. ;p

I'd hate playing team games with random people, though. Nape, Fight and I did some 4v4s where we picked up a random a few times, and we won, but it's just not the same good times as playing with people you know.

I really dislike playing team games competitively because the only viable thing to do in team games is to make tones of low tech units. But playing team games when one of your team mates builds 4 nexus' in his base and recalls 200 probes into an enemies base is fucking hilarious (<3 bobo). Team games are only fun when you fuck around imo.

Yeah i agree with fight, team games are fun but i don't like 2v2s. Sometimes when you get a team of half decent people together its awesome and you can win a huge number of games just playing standard. I never play random team games however, why would you?

Looking back, team games really are the most fun when you deliberately go into them with the intention of fucking around.

I remember one of the most fun things to do was to play 3v3 (I always did this with Bazza and Pete) and we'd do what was called the No Gas Challenge. You can figure it out, you're not allowed to make a geyser.

Fun times.

Hahaha, I think I remember doing that a couple of times with you and Pete as well :D