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Disagree with me, its ok , its your right to. I will not sit here and say your wrong or anything. Like I said it is a decision we made for now and we feel it is best for my tournament and the overall experience. If people do not come for stagelist reasons then I cannot agree with that. I think you come to apex for the overall greatness of an event such as this. For the fact that it makes history.
I guess I should not post much here anymore because I am worried that it is going to just get more hostile on both sides.
Alex, I have to ask,
why do you not think that an event's ruleset should not be a determining factor in whether a player attends an event or not? If anything, don't you have it
backwards? Isn't the ruleset, aside from travel expenses / entry fees / monetary reasons the
most important factor in determining attendance? After all, the ruleset determines the entire tournament experience, if you think about it. The rules will, whether you like it or not or WANT it to or not, have a hand in determining the final ranking of players (imagine the differences in final bracket layout with just the addition of a LGL, if not the banning of a character or tactic like infinites entirely), and players participate in events in large part to have an effect on that final ranking.
Your ruleset, in the end, will have a large effect on how people play, why they play, and for how long they CAN play (i.e., taking away RC / Brinstar might be a determining factor for some MKs... not any good ones, but still,
some player will be affected). Are you honestly telling us that it's not OK for a player to look at your ruleset, a ruleset that might, in their eyes, prevent them from either having fun or placing in the money, and then make a qualified decision about whether or not to attend APEX?
Because, I think you'll have to agree with me that, after giving it some thought, your original supposition is pretty ridiculous.
Of course the ruleset is an OK reason not to attend APEX. If anything, it's one of the
best reasons to either attend or not attend.
Also, ignore hostility. If things are going to get hostile, they will with or WITHOUT your presence in the thread. Don't stop posting just because you're worried about the resulting posts. Stop if you're tired or something, but not because you're worried about
internet hostility.