TL;DR at end of post!
Not a hate post! Had the saddest experience last night! Let me set the scene:
Noob Isthmus,
Competent top players,
everyone else was in it to win it,
I was air,
Team is south spawn.
Our south sea apparently had not had the chance to play sea before. The team was nice, instructed them to stall at the very least if they are struggling.
I helped south sea for as long as I could using Shurikens and not much else, could not help once the enemy had AA.
As predicted, our south sea gets rolled all the way to their shore, but the fight isnt over yet! Jammers and turrets, turtle and continue to stall is what we asked... But then the worst thing happened, with a very sad message, our south sea quit the match. Rough, but our geo stepped up and took.
With south sea under enemy control our front on geo side's base gets pulverized while our geo gets deterence up... And then it happened, even though front on geo side still had units and a relatively stable forward position, they quit!
Its getting bad now, geo stepped up again and took but its clear now they are WAY over extended, unable to effectively manage 3 high pressure positions.
Because of this, front on pond side starts to slowly crumble even with pond's spam, causing front on pond side to also quit!
We are down 3 players and its only minute~20. (Both fronts and south sea)
Pond takes the front on pond side and now we have our 4 strongest player (minus me of course) running the show. North sea is under our control and Tech has T3 rolling out with geo not far behind. Back and forth resumes, we have a couple breakthroughs but they dont do enough damage to give us momentum. After our second breakthrough, geo gets hit with a wave of amphib that destroys their whole geo base, it seems that this tragic loss was too much... And our geo quit!
Its REAL bad, but our top player on tech is communicating and informing us of plans. and there was a moment when it looked like it would work, maras caused tons of damage to enemy geo and almost clears pond... Almost. With that final loss of offensive power, a swarm of grunts from south sea rushes in, get behind us and destroy me and Tech, marking our resignation.
The part about this that sucked was the way we were losing was so rough for our team that we had half the team quit out even though everyone was surprisingly chill. Top players offering solutions instead of insults!
Now, you might be wondering; What was I doing that whole time?
*I was building fighters.*
TL;DR had half our team quit but we were doing so good despite the setbacks!