The last couple of games I have played vs. TomBodett, he has gone for jumpbots, and I have been going for spiders. It seems extremely easy for spiders to totally crush jumpbots, with almost no trouble at all. The game right before this that I played on the same map, I, for some reason, thought that the entire map was water, so I wouldn't be able to go for spiders (so I went for amphbots, which I have almost zero experience with), and thought I was going to lose. Somehow I still won that game, only about 5 minutes after TomBodett had destroyed my factory and fusion reactor at my main base. With an army of probably 50 spiders, an army somewhat larger that his, I went behind his base and totally defeated him with almost no trouble at all.

In this game, he suddenly switched to tanks, and I didn't expect the same strategy that worked against jumpbots to work vs. tanks, so I switched it up a little bit, like, I realized that my mixed spider army would do absolutely nothing vs. his tank army, so I quickly built a crab on a very high spire (to hold back his tanks), which seemed to work for a very short time, until a tremor comes over, and demolishes a gigantic mountain to absolutely nothing in a matter of seconds, like, one tremor bullet does insane amount of terraform, it should probably be nerfed so that the bullets don't do as much terraform, it looks very weird and also doesn't make so much sense, it is already raining bullets down all over the place, why have one bullet demolish a hill to nothing?
But anyway I kept trying to push and destroy his tremor, but it did not work, for some reason, it seemed that he was able to make a lot more tanks in this game than he was able to make jumpbots in the previous games, which makes zero sense. It even seemed that he was able to make more tanks than I was able to make of spiders (but I was also trying to build a merlin, which might have been a good idea, but it was a little late). I thought about terraforming walls to stop his approach, but after seeing that tremor totally demolishing that mountain, I knew it would be useless. What should I do as Spider vs. Tanks? and what is a good strategy for Jumpbots to beat Spiders? it seems like spiders can easily beat jumpbots, but maybe not, the only games I really play is me with or vs. TomBodett

quote: I have been playing a lot of 1v1s, in fact most of the games I have played are 1v1s, and I only show up on the "casual" ranking chart, why is that? I thought that the "casual" ranking was just for team games, and the "competitive" ranking was for 1v1s.

https://zero-k.info/Ladders explains this better since the names are a bit confusing, the casual ranking is for custom games, the competitive ranking is matchmaker games (plus the 1v1 pro room as an exception since Godde and co can't match many other players via matchmaking).