Since when is top hiding "cheap"? I wonder.. It's gotta be some new school pr0 attitude.

It's not lame either.

I wouldn't say it's that bad, I mean, you still need some skill to be able to pull it off, especially on maps like this, doing it on EASY maps I think is lame...

I agree with Dark, it`s not lame, it`s all tactic. But I believe that it WILL be considered lame by the majority of the community in a few years (maybe it already is), because that`s the trend we`ve seen by new players the last couple of years; you don`t hide on top. Maybe it`s just a part of the development in roping? But if you do consider hiding on top to be lame, then I guess you should not place your worm on the top of the map if you have the first teleport in the game, right?

it's impossible to make a rule against hiding on top, so I've accepted it and stopped trying to see it as lame or cheap.  it gives the losing player almost no hope of coming back, so you can see why they might get angry... but really, if you're losing by that much in the first place, you should be angry at yourself 

Ray, people who play lame in BnG are just lazy, period.

It's true...

It's nothing to with playing for the win, because without knowledge of all the possible shot combinations you leave yourself at a disadvantage, if you know how to bank, and double bank, and use LG, then if you get pushed into a hide where you can't use a straight shot, you can bank or double bank instead of teleporting into another hide thats easy to hit straight away, I wish people would realise this lol, they only leave themselves at a disadvantage.

Suppose both players hide on the left side, even healths. You're first to go and you get an impossible crate on the right. You take it and hide back to the left. Fine. Your opponent gets and an easy crate, attacks you and hides. Fine. Now you get another impossible crate, you take it and hide back. Fine, tough luck, it's roper. Your opponenent gets another easy crate, attacks you and hides on top. Not fine. That's IMO taking advantage of your bad luck and it's lame. You can't even call this strategy, because strategy is a skill and there's no skill in hiding on top like that I personally never do that. On the other hand, you're sometimes forced to do it, suppose when you're 2 v 1 and would obviously lose otherwise.

Some people when they luckily get a considerable advantage go all pr0 and do kicks and pumps after an attack and of course 'fall' on top going like "aw damn lol i suck xDDDDDDD". That's lame and idiotic IMO, because not only it takes advantage of your bad luck but it also assumes that you're stupid enough not to realize it was intentional.  

Three things I can't understand: this so called "telecow" and such ridiculous things in Hysteria, top hide being considered lame in Roper and the total lame gameplay in BnG.

The first thought that I can put together by the above mentioned is that the new wormers prefer roping a LOT more than we used to prefer it when we started playing (at least me). That is why they try to make Roper harder and Hysteria and BnG easier, that's my opinion.

All this sW and nlF freestyle "thing", movement, whatever also took away the will to learn fast roping and be familiar with Ropers and Roper Races.

I don't understand one thing: you're against lame play in bng (I agree), but you're fine with hiding on top in roper. That's two different criterias for me.
And you practiced your ass off to get in nlF back in the day when you were 'new wormer', didn't you?