The_Celestial_Warrior wrote:
I was going to hold this one until #4 or 5, but other statements in other threads has prompted me to push it ahead.
LoboStele wrote:
As for good ole fashioned pride....I dunno. If the Jedi Challenge is based on a bunch of 'fun' events, then the people who win the Jedi Challenge will be the ones that ignore the 'fun' aspect of it and play cut-throat stuff anyways. How much pride is there in beating up on people, when they weren't planning to play tough to beat squads anyways?
First off, who are these "cut throat" people?
Second, why do we continue to do this to ourselves?
To answer the questions directly:
By 'cut throat', I would imagine he is referring to people who 'have fun' mostly by winning. its not enough to just play the game. If they dont play it well, they dont seem to be having a good time. Im not saying anyone in particular is this, just stating that people like that exist. You know who you are, lol.
We continue to do this to ourselves, cause we want to make it so not everything is playing the meta to win.
If you want to have fun events, the cut throat people will still show, and still play competitive stuff, which brings it down to the 'just ban X', etc kinds of arguements.
You cant or shouldnt keep the cut throat people from playing in the fun events, but even people who dont normally need to win to have fun can get very upset if they enter a tourney that was listed as being a 'fun format' who bring their favorite Tusken or Ewok swarm squad, just to watch it get annihilated by meta after meta being played by the cut throat people. Whats the fun of playing a fun squad when you dont hardly get to play it cause it dies in two turns?
Whether or not you agree with anything I said above, my suggestion is: For the jedi Challenge, do whatever events you want (Im not suggesting any), but dont like any of them as being less competitive or more fun than the others. Doing so will just set you up for having players show up with their favority Djerik squad, only to be pissed off by the end of the day cause the tourney wasnt fun at all, and everyone was playing Gha + 10 mice.
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fingersandteeth wrote:
Also t4 for override and a cheeky flame.