First impression was of how linear the layout was. The team that steamrolls to the enemies' side without dying first has a huge advantage because of this.
What if there was an incentive to not go down the middle? Though I suppose that would frustrate more people than it intrigued.
Second, I looked in passing for the snowballs, being more concerned with the important task of steamrolling to the enemy side, so I could not find any snowballs until more than halfway through my first match.
This was due to me being striker, they tend to zoom right past where the six are behind your lobby fence.
I thought that the other snowballs ion the middle, when I finally saw them, were kind of hidden behind impenetrable barriers. Pros who want to win will just bypass them.
The side passages have barriers where the main drag does not. When one side has steamrolled, these are the main option I saw people taking to bypass the enemy blob. This was easy for the owners of the territory to slip back down the main drag and confront them, thereby consolidating the steamrollers power.
I like the cone effect for the snowballs but the range doesn't seem long enough to effectively trap the good strikers.
So, overall I think there are times when I would use the snowballs in combat, primarily when my team is ahead to taunt the opposition, but not otherwise in the current configuration. Thank you, and please offer more Prime Bombhead masks in the Featured Auctions.