Acadian Flycatcher
Smash Journeyman
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The issue with online tournaments is getting them all sorted out. Mario Kart 8 works because you have time frame to race a specific number of races, and people are always joining as others are finishing up so you have a constant steady stream of people. At the end your points are tallied up.
With Smash and the tournament style present in Melee and Brawl, you run into the issue of actually having dedicated matches between players. This brings a whole new issue of waiting for people, lag issues, and overall inconvenience to it.
Since it's bracket styled, people cannot just jump in and play whenever they have the chance, they have a set time to sign up and a set match time. If they miss the match then that disrupts the bracket, if someone drops out that disrupts the bracket.
If you tried it like MK8 where you battle for top points in a few certain matches, then what is really the difference between doing it in a "tournament" setting when For Fun and For Glory basically already track that information?
So what happens when you finish your match before all the others? What's the incentive for you to stick around and wait it out? Watching and betting on matches is an option, but that thrill doesn't last.
It could 100% work with friends. That way you could specifically invite them into the tournament, have control over how it's set up, and the knowledge that your friends aren't ****ing around on the other end to spoil your experience.
As far as jumping into a random tournament with strangers, that will never work. It will be way too much waiting for enough players to join, waiting for matches to end, people dropping out or losing connection and disrupting the brackets. With nothing more on the line than some points you can get while playing random matches, there's no reason to take part.
There are just so many other things to do in Smash Bros that it'll be impossible for you to stare at a bracket waiting for your next match without quitting and jumping into a quick match. Mario Kart and Mario Golf work because those tournaments don't rely on playing specific people. They offer a few golf courses to play, or tracks to race on within a certain timeframe, and tally up the best scores. But you are never specifically pitted against an individual in order to progress. You race against whoever else is racing at the time, you play against whoever else is on the course at the time. You don't progress up a bracket where your opponent is determined for you, you just add to your score as you continue to race different people. Those 11 other racers in the Mario Kart tournament are independently racing to get their own high score, half of those racers won't even be in the next race because they already finished the tournament. You are just part of that race, you aren't specifically racing against that **** from Great Britain, you are racing against a racer. Smash Bros. you are 100% dependent on a certain individual in order to complete your match.
There has been a lot of fuss about the lack of online Tournament options mentioned at this time, I'm just letting you know there is realistically no reason to be wishing for this function outside of playing with friends.
With Smash and the tournament style present in Melee and Brawl, you run into the issue of actually having dedicated matches between players. This brings a whole new issue of waiting for people, lag issues, and overall inconvenience to it.
Since it's bracket styled, people cannot just jump in and play whenever they have the chance, they have a set time to sign up and a set match time. If they miss the match then that disrupts the bracket, if someone drops out that disrupts the bracket.
If you tried it like MK8 where you battle for top points in a few certain matches, then what is really the difference between doing it in a "tournament" setting when For Fun and For Glory basically already track that information?
So what happens when you finish your match before all the others? What's the incentive for you to stick around and wait it out? Watching and betting on matches is an option, but that thrill doesn't last.
It could 100% work with friends. That way you could specifically invite them into the tournament, have control over how it's set up, and the knowledge that your friends aren't ****ing around on the other end to spoil your experience.
As far as jumping into a random tournament with strangers, that will never work. It will be way too much waiting for enough players to join, waiting for matches to end, people dropping out or losing connection and disrupting the brackets. With nothing more on the line than some points you can get while playing random matches, there's no reason to take part.
There are just so many other things to do in Smash Bros that it'll be impossible for you to stare at a bracket waiting for your next match without quitting and jumping into a quick match. Mario Kart and Mario Golf work because those tournaments don't rely on playing specific people. They offer a few golf courses to play, or tracks to race on within a certain timeframe, and tally up the best scores. But you are never specifically pitted against an individual in order to progress. You race against whoever else is racing at the time, you play against whoever else is on the course at the time. You don't progress up a bracket where your opponent is determined for you, you just add to your score as you continue to race different people. Those 11 other racers in the Mario Kart tournament are independently racing to get their own high score, half of those racers won't even be in the next race because they already finished the tournament. You are just part of that race, you aren't specifically racing against that **** from Great Britain, you are racing against a racer. Smash Bros. you are 100% dependent on a certain individual in order to complete your match.
There has been a lot of fuss about the lack of online Tournament options mentioned at this time, I'm just letting you know there is realistically no reason to be wishing for this function outside of playing with friends.
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