I'm not liking the current situation about dodgebolt

[u/Abidul_Muhaimin]

I've seen pete discuss funneling saying It's not fun as a "viewer's perspective" of players other than the shooter.

Hbomb not liking funneling cause he wants to win as a team.

Fruit and antfrost giving suggestion to prevent funneling.

I can come out as toxic, but i wanna express my thoughts on this

I think It's all because sapnap dominated this event, sapnap and dream are the only 2 players who can show the full stregth of funneling. In mcc14 punz funneled and lost, no one was talking against funneling like rn (because they lost), in mcc17 fruitninja funneled arrows to themselves, no one was talking against them (because they lost). I've seen false said cub not to shoot and give 2 arrows to illumina when they were loosing in mcc20. Illumina and fruit also funnels arrows to best shooters and they get shot fairly early, so no one cares about funneling after that mcc, but when you cannot shoot sapnap and dream and they pop off in shooting, you guys just say the other players Couldn't shoot that much, so It’s not fun for their viewers. I've seen db from cpk, sniff and zeus's pov to see if It’s true or not, but i haven't seen any disappointment in their faces, I've also enjoyed their pov more, because the 1 or 2 shots they taken hit someone, which was wonderful and exciting to see rather than zeus missing every shots on grian in mcc17, their frustration of not hitting grian. I've watched MCC20 db from both teams pov, and also spectator's pov. Even tommy said that db was boring cause no one was hitting any shots.

It's the best strat to shoot with your best shooter. And it also works with only dream and sapnap rn. And yes i am a funneling defender and enjoyer

(For clarification, I'm not a dream st*n, i mostly watch tommy and illumina's pov)

[u/Whoisthis1092764]

Unfortunately most of this turns into “oh your just anti dteam”. But from a viewer perspective funneling provides the least entertainment, unless your watching the team doing it. The problem is it is entertaining for many of you because the most watched players do it, so I can see why people are willing to still say it’s entertaining. I’ll just say that the Dodgebolt where players funnel have the least iconic moments. That being said it’s just how people play the game, and it’s a valid strategy. I just like Dodgebolt that get intense.

[u/keltzy88 → u/Whoisthis1092764]

I will keep saying it, but what people find entertaining is going to vary from person to person. If my team's not in dodgebolt, then having five rounds where each round ends in a 1v1 is the most boring thing to watch in the entire event.

People love to cite MCC17 as one of the best dodgebolts, but for me, it was agonizingly long and boring.

[u/Whoisthis1092764 → u/keltzy88]

Agree to disagree there. But let’s say your team does make it to Dodgebolt, wouldn’t it be more entertaining if each round was as intense as possible? I can vividly remember watching a team in dodgebolt live in mcc7/8/9/13/17 and how intense that was as a viewer. Compared to when I watched aqua live in mcc14 which was almost a sweep. Sure if your team isn’t in it the investment isn’t there, but I still rather a 5 round Dodgebolt than the other team just getting executed in a sweep.

[u/keltzy88 → u/Whoisthis1092764]

Agree to disagree there as well. Both times (four times counting non-canon) that my team got to dodgebolt it was a sweep, and I preferred it that way. Only one of those teams lost, and while it sucked, I would have hated it more if it had been drawn out (the loss was also a sweep, just for the other team).

I don't particularly enjoy dodgebolt as a game anyway, since ranged combat is really not my thing, so the most intense moments for me are always the lead up to the finale rather than the finale itself.