CorvusCorvax, on 28 October 2019 - 07:25 PM, said:
The match is a split tier match and the player is in the lower tier
I never see people talk about uptiering in such a way
They always say "I am uptiered." That's why I said this "up/downtier" thing is always about the player and not about the match.
Think about it, does this sentence make sense to you?
"I am flying a T6, and I am downtiered into a T7 game".
Pretty sure it doesn't. Like you said, up, higher, down, lower, they work together. This is known as collocation.
So in the end what dictates the usage of up/downtier depends on how you describe the matter.
I can agree on usages like "I am put in the lower tier of the match", but this only applies if people actually say this.
Yet they don't, they say "I'm uptiered into a higher tier match".
Let's take a look at your original sentence:
"I love to fly the Typhoon, but it suffers when downtiered. And T7 is where you get downtiered."
I would see the sentence like this:
"I love to fly the Typhoon, but it suffers when downtiered (into a T8 game). And T7 is where you get downtiered (into a T8 game)." (Sentence A)
And that's why "uptier" would make more sense.
Perhaps you see it like this:
"I love to fly the Typhoon, but it suffers when downtiered (in a T8 game). And T7 is where you get downtiered (in a T8 game)." (Sentence B)
And that's the case where "downtier" would make more sense.
In other words, the verb to "up/downtier" is described differently in the two sentences.
In A, "up/downtiering" happens when you are being MMed. You are in the queue, and as a T7 you got uptiered into a T8 game.
In B, it happens when you already are in the match. You already are in the T8 game, and you got downtiered into the lower tier of the T8 game because you are a T7.
That's why I am more inclined toward the usage of Sentence A, the concept is just closer to what we are doing in WOWP.
Side note: In my home language, we call it "fighting upwards/downwards" in WOT.
Edited by vcharng, 29 October 2019 - 01:08 AM.