MR 12 or MR 15 ?

Posted by Dev at 13:04 10/4/2003.

Maxrounds 12 or Maxrounds 15. Which do you prefer? Well it seems that a lot of high profile competitions could be making the switch from the beloved mr12 to m15. One persistant argument is that mr12 puts too much emphasis onto pistol rounds so with mr15 adding more actual 'gun' rounds games would be more of a level playing field and we would see less draws. I noticed over at gotfrag a link to a CPL forum post which may be worth you taking a read. Could we see the CPL following SEL and making the switch to mr 15?

My personal thoughts are that whilst mr15 take emphasis away from pistol rounds is that necessarily a good thing? The skill of using a pistol is equal to or harder than the skill of using any other weapon. Pistol rounds are vital in securing money for the next round; taking that away may mean we see less tactical opening rounds and less close thought out matches. I can see both sides of the argument and look forward to hearing the outcome. But it isn't all about me, what do you think?

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Simmo
13:06 10/4/2003
MR 12 all the way :x [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
w1cked^
Kirby-eSports
13:09 10/4/2003
MR12 is good, less pressure on the pistol rnd [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Pande
13:10 10/4/2003
Yeh w1cked MATE [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
k!o
13:11 10/4/2003
retards? ^^^^^^ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
w1cked^
Kirby-eSports
13:11 10/4/2003
stfu [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
w1cked^
Kirby-eSports
13:14 10/4/2003
I ment MR15 ell oh ell. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Zeke
13:17 10/4/2003
blatantly compromise
MR13.5... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
shuffler
13:17 10/4/2003
mp_timelimit 30 [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Chris0
13:18 10/4/2003
Ill give it 6 months till someone mentions mr17 [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
kirium
13:21 10/4/2003
Shouldnt this be a column instead Dev? >:) I reckon mr15 would be better, even though ive never played it before [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
MadSpunk
Last Chance
13:22 10/4/2003
hmm never played MR 15 before, might give it a go before I give my opinion ;o [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
13:28 10/4/2003
see the priv forum dev [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Geordie
Last Chance
13:28 10/4/2003
pistols skill?
they are too random, and alot of the time ineffective online, may the better registry win, and all that [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Dev
theb0g
13:29 10/4/2003
nah Fred, not long enough dude. Just adding my thoughts to the news that CPL may be going for mr15. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Dev
theb0g
13:29 10/4/2003
Geordie, LAN competition is the focus. Not online... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
13:30 10/4/2003
but u gotta practice online for offline. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Dev
theb0g
13:31 10/4/2003
yes but even now people may not win pistol rounds online and win them on lan. There is a huge difference between LAN and Online but like you said people have 2 practise online for lan events. So it surely doesnt matter either way in that argument? with mr12 OR mr15 you still have to practise online. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Geordie
Last Chance
13:31 10/4/2003
lan focus? then why post here o/ :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Gryff
13:35 10/4/2003
mr15 [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
13:36 10/4/2003
from a tournament organisers POV mr 12 is def better, from a player pov, opinions differ, however looking at some of the gotfrag comments saying changing to mr15 would give the europeans an advantage??? i don't quite see how. the co/mr arguments a few years back were interesting. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Dev
theb0g
13:37 10/4/2003
Yea Myers, i didn't see how it gave us an advantage either!? :/ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Ripper
Rush!
13:37 10/4/2003
yawn [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Dev
theb0g
13:39 10/4/2003
Nice argument Ripper. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Geordie
Last Chance
13:39 10/4/2003
ripper i bet you're sitting there with your nose up, arms crossed, legs crossed frowning at the screen when u say 'yawn' u wannabe, and before u say something in caps, and a maybe a lol in it and my name, just think about how silly u look! :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Marcus
calibre
13:40 10/4/2003
what i reckon might be good is mr15 with 2 minute roundtime, making it more of a CO type game, which was usually nicer to watch [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
13:40 10/4/2003
i hate to say it, but geordie just owned ripper pretty bad :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Headshot^Man`
Disturbed
13:41 10/4/2003
ive pld mr15 a couple of times recently, and its ok for example if one side is clearly better than the other yet the worse off side get a good pistol round, you can pull it back to like 12-3. Apart from that the games take too long, and if you save money well by about the 8th 9th round ecoing is not needed at all :[ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Ripper
Rush!
13:41 10/4/2003
yup im owned [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Ripper
Rush!
13:42 10/4/2003
and i just got called a c**krocket in the ukt staff room, man its been a bad day so far! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
St_George
g30rg3h
UKTerrorist
13:43 10/4/2003
interesting concept there marcus, maybe someone should test it? :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Purple
13:43 10/4/2003
I have a question.
I understand that MR15 would put less emphasis on pistol round, but,
If you play MR12 on 1 map
you have 24 rounds
If you play MR15 on 1 map
you have 30 rounds,
How does this lead to less draws?
or am i just stupid? (do not answer that one) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Geordie
Last Chance
13:44 10/4/2003
quick get some teamuk pcws so u can feel important again! :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Ripper
Rush!
13:44 10/4/2003
bitter? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Ripper
Rush!
13:45 10/4/2003
looks like geordie's up for a flame war! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Dev
theb0g
13:45 10/4/2003
more rounds, more opporunity to pull away. If you look at the SEL results there have been hardly any draws compared to other LAN competitions or Online competitions that use mr12 where you get a lot of 12-12 games or on clanbase for example you have some 24-24. Not that draws are a bad thing, everyone lurvs some O.T

:P [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
13:45 10/4/2003
MR12 with less random bulls***tery would be fine. MR15 with the way this w**k game is atm would be better [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Geordie
Last Chance
13:46 10/4/2003
i seen a worthy comment that needed a good flaming, and u got it in the face, i dont discriminate! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Ripper
Rush!
13:47 10/4/2003
oof, yep right in the face, that all you got? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
13:49 10/4/2003
If they wanna stop draws, they should have a single knife round for a game and count that toward final scores! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
13:49 10/4/2003
u actually want more? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
13:50 10/4/2003
doz u mean a knife round to decide teams and count towards the final scores? [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Dev
theb0g
13:52 10/4/2003
his rentboys own him a lot harder than geo has Myers. This is like a light bondage session for rippsy. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Ripper
Rush!
13:53 10/4/2003
you used to be good at this geordie :() [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
13:55 10/4/2003
Yes Myers. Then you'd always have an odd number of rounds played and no team would have any real disadvantage in the knife round [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Geordie
Last Chance
13:55 10/4/2003
sorry went for a crap, but its nice knowing u were sitting hittin refresh while i was giving the captain his sea burial, 'thinking of you' so to say! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Geordie
Last Chance
13:59 10/4/2003
mmm seems to have gone quieter than a day at kwik save without ripper :( the shelves.. dead god.. WHO WILL STACK THE SHELVES ?:(( [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Ripper
Rush!
14:00 10/4/2003
lol you've lost it mate [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Geordie
Last Chance
14:00 10/4/2003
dear* in my haste to type i seem to have hit the wrong key, im on 'THE VERGE' of break down [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
14:02 10/4/2003
omg! have warped you into a pathetic shadow of that person we once knew as Geordie ;-( [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Geordie
Last Chance
14:03 10/4/2003
i actually blame it on the lack of being able to call people configgers anymore, its so 2 months ago :( [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
14:03 10/4/2003
lol..verge :x [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Myers
Saviour of UKT
UKTerrorist
14:03 10/4/2003
was a typo ffs [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Geordie
Last Chance
14:03 10/4/2003
and lets face it theres only so many times in one week u can flame hertz, unless you're rhyzz [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Otis
Rush!
14:24 10/4/2003
Geordie's going for No.1 UKT poster award me thinks.

Oh and MR15 = good and yeah i like marcus' idea of 2 min rounds.

You would get less draws just because of the statistics of having more rounds, therefore less chance of getting that even score etc... [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Zeke
14:32 10/4/2003
aye, theres more ways that the rounds can be distributed so the proportion of draws becomes less

! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
teamx
14:32 10/4/2003
whats wrong with having a bit of pressure on the pistol round? if your gonna take that away we might aswell all start off with 5k :/ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Ripper
Rush!
14:33 10/4/2003
say goodbye to 5 map pcw's [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
14:38 10/4/2003
Because it's too random atm teamx [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Callisto
Game2XS
14:43 10/4/2003
mr0 imo... Go back to CO rules :D [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Headshot^Man`
Disturbed
14:45 10/4/2003
5 mapper, bit much init :] [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
St James
14:55 10/4/2003
mp_winlimit 100 =) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Greendude
14:58 10/4/2003
MR15. Never played it like. Seems to me though that the eco rounds can pretty much decide the outcome of the result in MR12. With MR15 it places less emphasis on these eco rounds even if you lose them, which is expected, so the added rounds still give you a chance to win. The main reason top euro clans seem to favour MR15 is because eco rounds are so 1 sided that they think the skill is taken out of the game cos at that level of competition whoever has the better weapon and armour will win. Even still I don't think it will change the outcome of matches that much. Less draws maybe but that's about it. The better team on the day will still win whether it's MR12 or MR15.

Now here's a crazy thought. Exactly why is money even in the game? If everyone can just pick whatever they want then surely it makes it a much more level playing field. Skill would be the deciding factor. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
RUDEBOY
15:01 10/4/2003
Better not just cos of less pressure but the more rounds contested = more precise the end result [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Gryff
15:03 10/4/2003
Maybe but it would take away the tactical element of eco and everyone could 5 man awp on aztec, it would make it s***. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Smittins
15:05 10/4/2003
ppl 5 man awp on aztec anyway [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
RUDEBOY
15:09 10/4/2003
I imagine it will play out just the same, only there will be 3 extra rounds on the end [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
RUDEBOY
15:11 10/4/2003
thing is u cant go into 2nd half level score - Psychological advantage :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Ho3x
15:12 10/4/2003
stick mr12 tbh, cos it dont go on to long and if u pld like 2 maps over mr15 could be a while 60 rounds Oo (my maths is the win!) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
phonics
15:12 10/4/2003
charges only :x [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
kirium
15:14 10/4/2003
i like the idea of MR15 / 2min rounds :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Geordie
Last Chance
15:18 10/4/2003
thats not saying much fred, considering u also like the idea of an elephant and its trainer, uncut [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
iron
15:20 10/4/2003
Yeh or we could just go back to CO [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Jolleh
Team56
15:23 10/4/2003
mr17... all the way! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DoZ
Anti-saviour of UKT
15:23 10/4/2003
For CO to work we'd need decent movement put back in. None of this retard jumping or constipated waddling for walking [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Demo
conneXion
15:40 10/4/2003
what about using elite WCG UK rules like f***ing maxrounds 8 ! [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
kirium
15:43 10/4/2003
wtf georide? freak :) [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Divvur
15:48 10/4/2003
Whats wrong with draws and close games? A 12 all game won in overtime or a 13-11 win is worth a thousand 17-7's. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
phonics
15:55 10/4/2003
the complaints are really more about a team getting lucky and possably getting 6 free rounds for 2 rounds of luck which when money is at stake could be a bit annoying for 'pros'. [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
Headshot^Man`
Disturbed
15:59 10/4/2003
luck is a big part of the game though ;] [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
DArk0r
Infinity-eSports
16:21 10/4/2003
mr15 would be better i think :o mr12 is a bit short ;[ [ Comment: Report | IP: Logged ]
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