Originally Posted by: The Last Flight 
While I haven't gotten a chance to look at this season's Playground Games, I found that if Flag Rush is the first event, the team who's on offense first has the advantage. If they score a lot of flags, it seems to psyche out the defense that a couple quit when the roles are switched, and the advantage only gets bigger from there.
I personally have mixed feelings about quitting. I get that it saves everyone time, but quitting on the first game? It's only the first game. Why not stay around for at least the second to see how things play out?
Sometimes you can tell whether you're on a hopeless team from the beginning and that is when I quit after the first game. But other times, your team is competitive and competent even if you lose the first game, and here is where you still have a chance. I've had many a time where my team lost the first game and still ended up winning the series in the end. I've been on winning teams that had far less upgraded cars than the opponents. I've won being on the team with 5 in 6 vs 5 matches.
With my luck, I always end up on the outnumbered team, or the team balancing puts the higher level players on the opposite side, which always leads to a team that doesn't "click". Each game has it's own tactics and you can really get hit hard if you're stuck with inexperienced players. I give them credit for trying, but if you're up against a team that knows what they're doing, you can't afford to wait for everyone to figure out what to do.
I didn't enjoy them at first but now I actually kinda like them. But if it looks like we have no chance after losing the first round (it's not hard to tell), I just quit and enter another match. Most have been done after 2 or 3 attempts, but there have been a couple that took many attempts to complete. I have won matches on outnumbered teams and also after losing the first round too, but winning the first round is a huge advantage.
Originally Posted by: Djaj88 
Their should be an option to switch to the other team, so that everyone can win.
lol
I have to agree with other comments though, the Forzathon shop is severely underutilised (as evidenced by the amount of FP most people have, including myself), and could be an ideal solution to get the exclusive cars available more often.
As of now the FP are pretty much useless. Most of the stuff in there is usually pretty average, occasionally something good pops up in there. The auction house is a shambles and isn't a realistic option for a new player, and the difficulty of finding some cars for sale on there, combined with whatever is going on that allows people to swoop in and get cars so quickly (making private trades almost impossible), makes it a real chore for even a seasoned player with credits coming out of their ears.