[quote author=Ladna link=topic=507.msg5130#msg5130 date=1319337976]<br />Defending with 100ms+ is taking a huge risk.&nbsp; I ping ~50ms to TT.&nbsp; If you ping 100ms to TT there are about 2 TICs between when my packets reach the server and yours do.&nbsp; In any given situation I have at least 50ms of reaction time more than you.&nbsp; The average human reaction time is ~100ms, so unless your reaction time is half the average (extremely unlikely), you can&#039;t make this up.<br /><br />It doesn&#039;t really become apparent that this is a huge handicap until you try and defend in the IDL, where one missed shot on D likely leads to a flag, and 1 flag is a huge deal.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />I can&#039;t speak for players who run or mid or whatever but really in defense at this level of play where teams usually stack offense these days rather than defense, if two guys or in some maps depending on the layout of the base and spawn locations, even one dude runs in and you miss a shot, no matter what your latency, you are through. This is true in maps with tiny bases like for instance map14, and less true on maps with larger areas and less obstacles in mid like map01, but the principle still holds true.<br /><br />Defending is less about connection quality and more about the traditional focal points that make up the position and set it apart from the skill set needed in the other two: Positioning and game flow prediction. I would argue that mid play is more dependent on reaction time and connection quality than defense because often times you have to deal with 1, 2, maybe 3 people at the same time, sometimes coming from different directions! At least with defense the attackers all converge in common paths.<br /><br />It makes no sense that connection quality excludes people from playing a certain role, as long as the connection itself is relatively stable you can adapt to its quirks and still play, as proven by like, everyone in the league who doesn&#039;t get 20 ping to TT. So yeah, playing with ping and pl is pretty easy! This should not discourage someone from joining the IDL, because everyone started out not so great and got better by playing with/against better players than themselves. Let&#039;s get real.