Talk:Roar of the Rift/@comment-31671362-20170721124117/@comment-26296920-20170721204448

Here's my opinion on Blazing Gale's defeat (I am also suffering the same fate in this house):

Last year during the tournament a lot of players chose Blazing Gale based on the several reasons, because of the Fire or Air element, Gwyddion is the house wizard and is also the tutorial wizard and mascot wizard for the game, or because it was the one in the middle last year. I personally chose Blazing Gale becauses Gwyddion reminds me of Gandalf and being a Tolkein nerd, I have to follow Gandalf. No matter what the reason, there were a lot more people in Blazing Gale than any other house, and probably a lot of new players too. We  know thiss because past polls reveal that there were a lot more people in Blazing Gale while the other four houses had less (Espeically Icy Torrent), no offense to any of thosse houses.

In the past year, many of these players who only temporarily play events or were new players to the game last year, dropped off and stopped playing the game. This means that the number of players per house was much more even for this event. However, BFS, in developing the event, set different levels of magic needed to obtain a prize for the different houses based on how many people were in the house (otherwise, Blazing Gale would have blown the competition). Therefore, Blazing Gale's "quota" was much higher than other houses and since there aren't as many players playing, Blazing Gale hass struggled to make progress.