Yeah, Maelstrom has no one there to blame but themselves there. They should of pulled back towards their base then circled around to Adder's while everyone else raced for their point, but they tried to defend, got overwhelmed and payed the price. Hindsight.
Adder honestly wasn't tying to avoid the crystals. Just where we were in relation to when and where the nodes spawned was just awful luck (and some poor choices) and then we got zoned out by whoever got there first. Things like no nodes on our side of the map for the first 2 spawns or on the other side of the map while we were taking a base etc.
How far behind at the last big crystal, I couldn't tell you off the top of my head, but Adder was down a good 800-900 points when that last crystal fell it's probably why we got ignored until it was too late. Everyone pushed in on Maelstrom, we capped, IF ignored us and went for their own win off kills, Maelstrom pushed back out into IF and IF retreated via the top while Adder left a token force, cut across the center, capped IF's base and killed/cut off their rezers.
Edit:For stupid word count.
