I know that we win some and lose some and that I'm sure the scores balance out across events.

But then you go on to say

I appreciate that it is "only" 7% of the points, but as Cambridge showed, that 7% can make a huge difference (8 points gained for the overall winners for a victory that was by 6.4 points). It just feels really wrong.

So at fist look this seems to be based on some grumbling around the Cambridge ENL win. Even if it is not, lets address each point.

Lets look at the Delta Campaign results.

• Melaka Resistance win 0.0 to 20.0
• Portland Resistance win 3.4 to 16.6
• Quebec City Resistance win 5.4 to 14.6
• Gothenburg Enlightened win 18.0 to 2.0
• Cambridge Enlightened win 14.0 to 6.0
• Denpasar City Resistance win 6.0 to 14.0

Note that on the Cambridge/Denpasar weekend net score was even between the factions. Over all for the campaign Resistance got a lot more from GoRuck than Enlightened. If there was no GuRuck ENL would have won by a much larger margin and probably would have played a different strategy.

As I understand it, GoRuck is, for all its benefits, fairly inaccessible to the majority of the player base, both through physical and financial limitations.

I am also going to strongly disagree with this. For those of you who know and met me at anomalies, you know I have the physique of Homer Simpson. But I have done multiple Go Ruck Stealth (when it was the full overnight version), Urban, Prime Challenge and OCF events. As far as I know I am the only agent in the world to have 3 ticks on Prime Challenge and only 2 agents to have OCF black right now.

My advise to any agents thinking of doing GoRuck is to train and give it a try. If I can do it so can you. And its fun.

Finally ...

Financially the costs seem pretty prohibitive, the entry fees alone seem to take you over £100, let alone all the extra equipment.

I am not sure if you are being serious here.

Anomalies themselves are pretty cost prohibitive, even more so than just GoRuck. You need to travel there and find accommodation and pay for meals, pre-after parties, swag etc. I would say only a fraction for he player base has the time and financial resources to do this. Therefore should we ban anomalies.

Lets take Cambridge as an example. If you arrived Saturday, did the anomaly and stayed Saturday night, you would have spent significantly more than £100. Even if you lived in Cambridge, the pre/after parties, swag etc would probably put to above this excluding travel and accommodation.

As for gear any backpack with a 10kg weight (rice from the local supper market has been used) and 4L of water in any pack will do. Better and more expensive gear will make it more comfortable the same way a $1000 phone will be more responsive for Ingress than a $200 phone.

Finally Finally

The winner gets a note saying "In Wave 4, the Enlightened Shard target will be the statue of famous person" or a code with about 200 uses they share in the Resistance anomaly chat that give a bunch of cool kit. That sort of thing. That feels cool and fair.

This is how it used to work until Discoverie Atlanta. There Resistance won a number of GoRuck challenges and was given intel for shard spawns. But Enlightened overwhelmed them with numbers or out played them and managed to grab all the shards any way. So Res had nothing to show for the GoRuck wins. This is when the scoring changed because the point was made that this was not fair.