Battle of the Brands S2E36: Detective Breeze & the Mystery of the Algorithms

Why, it's elementary, my dear Austin! Raw GM Tyler Breeze's winless streak has got him investigating every possible scenario to see what could be causing it! On the other side, SmackDown GM Austin Creed is riding high as the blue brand continues to dominate this season. Can Breeze break the case open and earn an elusive win?
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[kcinverse]

In all honesty for Breeze's defense I have played GM mode several to dozen's of times, 16 weeks for a Rivalry is not supposed to happen. I say for certain something is wrong and they should be changing up rivalries several times.

[devilmikey]

Glad they are finally addressing the rivalry thing. I think all of woods rivalries are double digit and some are approaching 20 weeks. Modding can be a funny thing. Changing one thing can break a bunch of other stuff you didn't realize was connected to the thing you changed. That's why game patches can fix one thing and break a bunch of other stuff. Rivalries are either set to never sour or aren't visually showing if they are going sour.

[ronaldromero]

Time to get Breezango to investigate this mysterious case 🧐

[michaelbrown]

Creed must know something is up, because he never even checks his rivalries during his time. So, either he is checking them outside of his 5 minutes (which would also be against the rules), or he knows they won't go sour. Team Breeze all the way

[raybajamunde]

The longest rivalry I have ever had was 13 weeks then went sour in the 14th week and both wrestlers' popularity in that feud were 95 and above. Breeze is definitely getting screwed after the game crashed.

[charlescoley]

There’s two possibilities going on here. The game might be a bit more modded than woods realize or there’s some major collusion going on here. Breeze would do Taker vs HBK until it ran into the ground last season and it would never get to more than like 11 or 12 weeks at most then it would sour.

[coachmarv]

Billie Kay being 100 popularity is the most realistic thing I've ever seen.

[chanegrant]

While Breeze is salty, he does have a point. There is something going on.

[badchop]

Also, y'all should have restarted when Woods' setup corrupted and blew up all the files. There's no way something didn't get broken in the restoration process.

[grantlopez]

I wouldn't mind if you guys started over. I think the mod did mess up the game a bit. Either way, I'm excited for more BotB!

[brusch]

This series made me play the hell out of GM Mode on my own...in my experience when I was booking as well as I could and had two 90+ wrestlers in a long rivalry, the absolute longest I could ever possibly keep with three thumbs up was around 12-13 weeks. My guess is that there is a glitch in this mod - the rivalry HAS been going 16 weeks, but it's been soured for an unknown number of them and the game isn't accurately updating the thumbs up/thumbs down graphic (but the effects of the thumbs down soured rivalry were occurring). I'd wager fake internet points that Breeze has a major chance to come back if Woods actually tries to gun for the 20 week triple thumbs up rivalry.

[maroonpug]

Austin getting so defensive as soon as Breeze starts bringing up legitimate points about the game being off is so frustrating lol.

[michaelvin]

I like this series, but watching it makes me realize that even though I want GM mode back, I want a lot of changes.

[jacos.]

Similar to Pinocchio, creed has a “tell” when he lies... his hairline recedes. He had to cut the video short for this reason.

[briancarpenter]

if Breeze ever interferes again, he should send Xavier over to do it

[TheJayTeeGee]

They aren't playing the real game anymore, and that's why everything is crazy. This season should have died when they lost the original save files. They had to get someone to hack the game to get it back up and running again, and some of the other hacks like allowing women to compete in all the match types has had some unintended consequences with the algorithm. Creed knows something is up and that is why he is so defensive. He knows this win is tainted at best. I do not want to accuse Creed of cheating, but he is definitely sus.

[SmoothShawn]

Creed is acting suspicious. He doesn't even check his rivalries anymore cuz he probably knows they won't sour.

[LeWolfie]

Right now, Breeze's only hope to catch up is that Creed's rivalries turn sour. If that doesn't happen, sooner rather than later chances are that Creed will mercy-rule him.

[Full]

Im saying the mods are throwing the algorithms out of whack. Just reset without mods

[LtGrandMaster]

Creed is deflecting, he's hiding something