Season 2 begins today

And it is kind of bittersweet.

I ended the season with a 2v2 rating of 2060, a 3v3 rating of 1847, and a RBG rating of ~1820. Neither the 3v3 nor RBG were my season highs, nor were they high enough to get the titles I wanted. This is the sad part. I think I definitely could have pushed them high enough to get those ratings, I just didn't put the time in.

Part of that is because I've just been really busy, and I think part of it is because we didn't have quite the same success with 3s as we did in 2s ... and that was disappointing and frustrating. I also didn't realize the season was ending this week until after we spent Sunday night playing 2v2.

2s actually went really well. We went just 7-5 but it felt like we were far more successful than that; we pushed our rating almost 40 points higher than when we started and that was by far the highest we'd been all season. The difference was using Mind Control instead of Fear!

Mind Control has no cooldown, does not share diminishing returns with Cyclone, and is similar to Cyclone in the regard that the player that is MCed cannot be healed by their teammate! It is also hilarious. We had several games where we got some really good CC chains off - a full cyclone, followed by a Mind Control (running out of line of sight or auto attacking the teammate!), followed by switching the cyclone/MC to the other opponent.

It was a lot of fun and brought with it an element of control that we hadn't really felt too often. We still failed against the couple hunter teams we fought (le sigh), but it worked really well in the other games we had.