[Monroe]

Honestly guys, it is still too early to totally call this round. While it seems likely that a cath will win the round at this point and quite possibly dominate the t10, that fact in and of itself does not mean caths are grossly overpowered. There are problems with caths, some of them related to the fact that Game decided to adapt my flawed cath race to his stats, and some of them related to the uneven attack advantage of cath CO as well as other things. This doesn't mean they are hideously out of balance by themselves, you have to look at the whole set of stats rather then just one race. The bigger questions are how good of a chance does each race have at winning the round, how balanced are the stats as to be conducive to a roughly even race selection by players, and do the stats allow for even the largest players to be roided from time to time?

In every round the top players are going to be able to fortress to some degree, it is simply the nature of the combat engine, so to complain that the top players are fortressed is not to complain about the stats so much as to complain about how the game fundamentally works. Being completely unable to hit the top players is a problem, but there are still 3 weeks left, so I still think it is premature to come to conclusions on how fortressing will pan out. As to the overall balance between races this can never been accurately measured until the round is over. While the current trend is for cath/xan dominance there is still plenty of time left for zik to catch up (ter and etd do seem to be screwed at this point but you never know), and so rather then to continue speculating about race balances lets let the data at the end of the round, rather then subjective personal experiences dictate the success or failure of the stats.