That's what doesn't help, even if the melee players by some miracle do beat most of the ranged there is always that one ranged player who is the last alive who will just run away. They know they can't win yet they refuse to drop the bow and arrows and get a melee weapon to even try and put up a fight.
When someone does that I think a large majority get pissed off because there's just no need for it, doing that does nothing but piss people off and make everyone wait longer to spawn.