Every OWC match so far where someone has failed would have resulted in the same outcome if they didn't fail (go and check if you don't believe me). And of course, not every one of these fails would have been able to reach recovery again (it's quite hard with high HP drain). Recovery will only make matches closer. Now when players fail, we can look forward to seeing whether they recover and contribute the (low) score they did achieve or fail to do so.
Also for what is is worth, recovery was supposed to be implemented and working before OWC started - I discussed this with Loctav - but the fact it was bugging for Team VS was kept under the covers until I found out half-way through. I have no intention of removing recovery again. Please move discussion of this to another thread (feature request, toggle recovery off) so it doesn't clog up this one.
Also for what is is worth, recovery was supposed to be implemented and working before OWC started - I discussed this with Loctav - but the fact it was bugging for Team VS was kept under the covers until I found out half-way through. I have no intention of removing recovery again. Please move discussion of this to another thread (feature request, toggle recovery off) so it doesn't clog up this one.