Talk:Inescapable Crisis/@comment-158.135.197.143-20130416143432/@comment-5694125-20130416150242

What is your ATK and DEF? my 3TP ATK = 252464 AND 3TP DEF = 248506. I have been consistently getting 8 wins and sometimes 9-11 wins. I am now at rank D, so I think my deck is still slightly above the D curve. So I hate to say it but Drecom seems to have it right; the only thing I see going on is your deck not being powerful enough as the ladder stabilizes with all the MR-UR decks being on the top.

My observations: the matches you face each battle increase in difficulty with 1st being the easiest and 10th being the hardest. As you rank higher, for example A-C, it seems even the first match you fight is pretty hard since the matchmaking seems to be with players around the same rank as you. This would make sense since a Rank H does not want to fight all Rank A players.

At the beginning, it seems a lot of people were burning Tourney potions to get to the #1 within each battlegroup. The math made sense, burn a bunch of pots and then get 5 back for ranking #1. This allowed a lot of "sub par" decks to rise to ranks A-C. However the moment Drecom scaled back the potion giveaways, and also as most of us cross 500+ matches won and no more free TP as milestone prizes, those "sub par" decks are running out of steam. The elite decks (all full evolve MR and UR) never had to burn that many TP anyways, so we are just coasting. These players time their attacks so they might be able to get 2 free attacks within the 6 hr battle window to get their AR guage up, and then burn TP only in the last 10-15min like nitrous to finish the race.

So... I hate to say it, because tbh Drecom sucks at explaining these events, but it seems you just need to learn the event mechanics, strengthen your deck, and chase the PWR curve.