Overall I think you were fine. I think you performed at your elo but you could have easily been punished by common swift openers. Your build was both risky and inefficient.

Two naked cranes to spend the metal you don't have? Double pylon rush? Two urchins to protect a marginal tidal farm in the first couple minutes?

I think the fusion was fine and made sense given your intention to make magpie, although you'd invested in protecting the tidals so expanding that might have been better.

I don't think TAW is a great place to settle disputes, Xeno sounds stressed as they're forced to pick up other people's slack. But I think if you're consistently getting criticism from highly rated players (and there is a big gap regardless of how many books you've written) you should try to listen. It won't all be useful, but double naked crane when you have no metal is a godawful opener and if you want to grow you need to understand why. Don't think that just because you have pronounced strengths you don't also have pronounced weaknesses.

I decided this bit (thinking more about strategy and gameplay assessment than whether harassment had occurred) didn't belong in my "speaking-with-admin-hat-on" post.

quote: XenomorpHer (pregame): this is the worst spot for planes

I weakly agree with the sentiment; starting on the back island makes it impossible to plate or con-blueprint a land teammate, and you are extremely vulnerable to amph shenanigans.

quote: XenomorpHer (1:30): can you pls plane and not build

I think that in the vast majority of cases [Spoiler] building any Cranes, especially early, indicates that the planes player or their team has blundered badly. In this case I can see why you made one Crane to take the mex on the low ground in front of you - this is kind of the consequence of where you and your team chose to start.

I am struggling to express my sentiments about the SECOND crane with anywhere close to the politeness which XenomorpHer showed. If nothing else, it was strictly worse than a Caretaker.

quote: XenomorpHer (4:40): useless

At the moment this was said, all you had contributed to your team was (a) taking a few mex, (b) a little scouting and (c) one or two engagements with Swift which left more dead Swift reclaim in enemy territory than you destroyed.

(The fusion was mostly complete - but your team already had plenty of energy income.)

quote: while i have to change my entire setup halfway through to accomod

Adjusting your plans to what the other team does, and hence what your teammates need of you, is what good team-play looks like.

quote: Qrow and STILL having highest value killed XenomorpHer you took 10 mins to make magpies man XenomorpHer thats criminal XenomorpHer while we died on front

Running up the score in "garbage time" while your team has already lost doesn't mean very much.

quote: Qrow have you literally ever seen eco air players Qrow do not tell me you have never played taw

I have played TAW and I mostly hate having these players on my team.

quote: XenomorpHer wow sorry fusion eco Qrow bro you flamed me for making a CON XenomorpHer that fusion won XenomorpHer u have no idea what eco is Qrow you have no idea how to play bombers clearly Qrow you are aware you need a fusion or geo to magpie right

Maybe, just maybe, this is a reason not to magpie in a 7v7 with small rush distance?