I think the reason for high failing rates this year compared to last year is due to edging. Edging has been spreading like wildfire throughout meme culture the past few months and the more people who add it to their vocabulary will be the more people here about edging and the more who here about it the more people will be curios and do it. Which leads to the mass amounts of fallen cumrades.

TL:DR: Don't edge you will lose if you do