User blog comment:Polysium/Asian Alliances vs English Alliances/@comment-25500470-20150118212148

See, I feel that the timezone is the #1 reason, honestly.

In the current setup you have battle times that, 3 out of 4, favor those in Japan and China. The last one is a giveaway win that gives you a false sense of things.

My alliance has a mixture of people across the globe, which helps, but Japan and China dominate. So during those times they are online battling when the rest of us are asleep. The problem is that their decks aren't nearly as good as ours (which is strange).

During one battle recently, it was just me and one other guy and he didn't have any rods left. I came in about 20 minutes late, we're down like 50,000 points in position 5, and I single-handedly got us back up to position 3, neck and neck with position 2. This is because I had 5 red rods AND a good deck; my defense team is not easy to beat unless you're extremely lucky and you have a bunch of AOEs where more than one of them proc at the beginning of the battle. If you don't get off first my defense team will literally waste you. My attack team is good enough that I will win 8 times out of 10. The other two times are pure luck where my gals don't proc.

That told me that your deck quality plays a big factor. You can have terrible cards and lose or you can have amazing cards and win, but if the duels are during times when I won't be online, I can't contribute my strength to things.

This is why Nubee needs to go back to the anytime duel setup they had at the end of 2013. That was a LOT more equitable because it didn't matter about timezone, and it was all about the deck quality when battling other alliances.