SuperDoodleMan
Smash Ace
- Joined
- Jun 4, 2003
- Messages
- 792
I don't like it when tourney matches go down to the wire. Last game, last stock, high percent. It happens all the time, but IMO, games that close aren't truly indicative of who's better. Theoretically, if I played myself, I would break even in the long term, but current tourney rules would declare one of me the victor after some amount of time/stock.
The flow of a match can go back and forth like a metronome, and being able to win by a narrow margin is, in my mind, just as arbitrary as a win decided by random items or stage hazards.
I want to discuss the possibility of deciding the winner by a margin, like in (table) tennis. First to have a 2 stock lead wins the game, for example. The obvious problem is that evenly matched players would take a while for one to become the clear victor.
This is an idea I've been thinking about for a while, and I'd like to get others' thoughts on it.
The flow of a match can go back and forth like a metronome, and being able to win by a narrow margin is, in my mind, just as arbitrary as a win decided by random items or stage hazards.
I want to discuss the possibility of deciding the winner by a margin, like in (table) tennis. First to have a 2 stock lead wins the game, for example. The obvious problem is that evenly matched players would take a while for one to become the clear victor.
This is an idea I've been thinking about for a while, and I'd like to get others' thoughts on it.