What makes a good player? Experience, a good hardware, a good ping, a strategy, knowing every map as his own apartment, fast reactions, the right weapon in the right moment, tweaking his q3config as a software-sadist, just luck … ?? Don’t know. And nobody knows, but I want to investigate. So, this is the first graphic I extracted from Ballerbude stats (http://bb.game-host.org/).

I took the best 10 players of today (today is 30/05/2011, Ballebude stats are not The Bible, and also there, things change from day to day) to see their 5 most used weapons. Maybe we can learn something. Or maybe not.

Are they using Colts because they are good players, or are they good players because they use Colts? Or, are they good players because of their ping, so that they can afford to buy 2 colts and sit camping on a roof? Who knows? If I could camp –with a good ping– on a roof, I’d be almost immortal… and I’d keep getting more and more money, and more and more Colts :), but I’m not a camper.

That’s it. SG is not Robin Hood, it gives more to the richest one.

I think that it’s not a matter of ping, not mainly, it’s a matter of smart strategy and prompt reactions. Why, Doppelkupplungsgetriebe doesn’t use Colts at all?

(Click on image to download infographic, 10 MB).

I know all this players. I played with them, but I also spectated them a lot when I was admin in Baller (I was always looking for cheaters. This was before ^TheDoctor^’s anti-cheater system). I’m sorry we can’t see ^TheDoctor^’s stats, because he is hidden in BB stats.

Well, Nautica and Muffin they camp a lot, and they have an enviable ping (Muffin doesn’t play when his ping is below 50) . It’s obvious they use Colts a lot. But I recognise they are wonderful players, with a strategy and good reflexes.

JippieJayeah! and Boss, they run a lot. They have amplified reflections (good headphones?). I love them 😉
I think that Jippie uses Sawedoff because he frequently plays at night, against bots. And I know what a Sawedoff can do against bots 😉

The more you go down the list, the less you see Colts and the more you see other weapons used.

But what amazes me the most is Doppelkupplungsgetriebe (Doppel): no Colts, and many S&W Schofield. Nice Dopp, a very personal strategy that seems to be working. [Do you know Doppel, that grasshopper always jumping in the middle of the road? Eh eh  🙂 Hi, Dopp].

And now let’s have a look at *LAME* clan stats.

(Click on image to download infographic, 10 MB).

As you can see we don’t follow the same pattern of 10 best Ballerbude players. Apart from JippieJayeah!, the others are each one a different story. Mope preferring S&W Schofield, Biondo having a “lame” fun with Sawed-Off, and ZaPaTa + JesseJames using pistols (but no Peacemaker). JesseJames likes also the Winchester 1897 (10%), not depicted in the graphic.

Are we lame because we don’t use Colts, or we don’t use Colts because we are lame? Who can say?