orkan mk2, haul you 「bum-bum」 back to your own league please

The events are too difficult to complete I think. I've had over 1000 cups the last 3 weeks. To me that's quite a lot of activity. I didn't complete the first event and I won't finish the 2nd either. There is an option though that makes it much easier to reach the end. Pixonic has been aware of this for almost a year now, at least. Instead of just slamming the door shut, Pixonic keeps trying to entice players to close the door themselves. We've seen how that worked.

The other problem is half the people play events like idiots. If you're on wins it can get stupidly frustrating when you keep losing because of other people not caring. At some point it's easier to just drop to a point where you can control the entire game and destroy red alone.

I've changed my opinion from being extremely anti tanking to accepting it. People will take advantage of any edge they have. It's why we corner shoot instead of just running straight for center with every bot we have. It offers us a better chance at winning. Until tanking as an option is removed totally, it will be a bigger problem than it has to be. The real problem isn't the people tanking. It's Pixonic not accepting it's a problem and repairing it.

I don't think it has anything to do with the event. So many of these bums already have multiples of anything they could get from the event. I just think some people like taking unfair advantage. It's kind of sad, actually.

This and plenty of them

I think as per the other thread the MM has been loosened again. So prepare for an up to 3 league mix. if so (early days still), experts could be back with champs on occasions and mk2 does indeed belong in expert according to the MM.

I can sort of think of a reason for Pix doing this. When they tighten the MM people move up and hence they balance the population in each league to desired levels.

When everyone is tanked a few leagues in each direction it can make sense to tank to tilt the balance in the tankers favour without affecting the quality of the game much. So you still get a good game but bound to win more than 50%. This was a common tactic used in the old leavers queue. Say each team gets 2 masters, 2 experts and 2 diamonds than a tanker from masters can tilt MM odds by pretending to be a diamond. So the tankers team ends up with say three masters, 2 experts and 1 diamond. That's a win most of the time.

I think it means that you join the match and then do not fight, so the game will give you negative points and eventually drop you to lower league. You advance then again to gain all the rewards.  

Being an RPG player it confused me greatly because in RPG it means something different. 

For War Robots, Tanking = Purposefully playing poorly to loose ranking points.

I'm in IOS, Expert II and I see a lot of Mk2 chassis and gear,  but it is on the Masters and Legends that end up in a match with me. 
The Tankers that I see are usually on their way down - a hanger full of Cossacks bouncing around with Punishers, Molots and Tulumbas. 
It might be a desperate attempt to get the "damage with a light robot" task, but that's a stretch. There are better light robots for getting that thing done.