I've been with the Twin Adder since the beginning of 2.3. When Frontlines first came out, at least on Primal, the story was Mael was the dominant GC (to the point of suspicion), Adder was second, and Flames seemed to desire third place. It was just very difficult to beat them. They could be a distant second for most of the match, claw their way back to front and get the win (this happened far too often). Personally I thought some of them were manipulating the score. Ridiculous, yes, but those were my thoughts. I didn't have a full understanding of scoring worked and seeing their score jump 15/20 points a second bothered me, but I kept it to myself. Around the time 2.4 rolled around, Flames clawed themselves from their third place ditch and contested for second place, and going for first place more often than they did during 2.3. This is also the time that bore witness to their nasty two-party-alliance-roaming-the-lands tactic (very hard to deal with, but they would still lose in the end). They would just steamroll anybody within sight. It wasn't before long the Adder started doing this tactic, but it wasn't long lived, I believe. This was the beginning of the premades, I think. When 2.4 hit, there was a change - you could be blind and notice it. Mael was winning a lot less than before. I don't know if it was due to people switching alliances, or Square slightly altering the map, but this is the period where my first and second place winnings switched, and it's been the same ever since. I've never seen Mael in third place so often before. The long time Flames must have noticed something too. I'm sure they were happy during this time.

98% of my matches have been Secure matches, the bulk of them during 2.4.