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Well I agree here. I am probably borderline in terms of my melee "bracket" so I have chances.
But he clearly has no skillz
Facts? That you somehow deserve to play more pools matches?
real talk (yes this is a serious post omg so wow), this is the only good argument against low-level players getting a decent number of games in
thats where the learning factor comes in, to get full pool results ull still have to play at least 2 more sets
People played joke sets at the previous apex if they were guaranteed to advance. In blunt simple terms, they did not care anymore and these sets do not help new players at all and if anything just installed more ego to the top players. Having random people play potentially 2 more sets does not justify another probable 6 hours of play if not more and the potential repeat of having the opposite of hype at the end of the previous Apex when everything was rushed and we missed some things as well.
Sure, a good time would be Saturday evening some time (until that point I'll be doing only ssb64 stuff). Come find me.nintendude i wanna vs your ics
Like I said, I will probably get my money's worth. This is not some rant because I want more matches for myself. Just because this is a competition doesn't mean there isn't catering. The whole event is catering. TOs cater to the players. They are providing a service for cash; that's how it works. If TOs want to increase entrants, they should take care of the lower skilled players who pot fill despite having no incentive outside of getting in some fun tournament matches.If your good, you'll make bracket no matter what. The bracket pools are pretty well balanced IMO. If your border-line good, then gl to you. Realize that this is competion, and there is no catering. Do what you have you do to win or else, theres no way around it.
And this is Apex which is testing the BEST of the BEST. Expect high-level competition, and be prepared.
I've TOed multiple tournaments (for Melee as well as other games), so I have a pretty keen grasp on the difficulty in balancing catering to the top players as well as the lesser skilled players. Raise entries too high and the newbies don't want to enter. Lower them too much and top players have no incentive to attend (which in turn means lower players won't attend because they want to play the good players).
I never suggested Apex should do RR pools this year. I stated quite clearly that I realized it is too late to rework the schedule to allow for different pools. Clearly you didn't read the part of my post where I also explained that even without RR pools, you can still do other things to provide extra sets for players who get knocked out early. Even with just a few days before Apex, I don't think it'd be hard to implement a simple amateur bracket for those who get knocked out really early. You just run it during the meat of the brackets when only the top 48 or so players are still in the tournament.
So you've dealt with people who want their "Money's worth"? I don't understand man.
When you read how things aren't going to change, then there's no point in arguing something that's already been said and done MONTHS ago.
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I suppose it's a side note but at least in my experience, it wouldn't just be for trying to get better, it'd also be to meet the top players and see what they're like as people. I know it'd be a dream come true if I got to meet the world's best.
That OH swag. Is Abu or Hanky coming?
tldr; "I'm bad and I need compensation for being bad"
I didn't know OH has swag. I must have missed the news.
