The_Celestial_Warrior wrote:
If we have X maps for a whole "season" now and get burnt out, then how will it be with X/2 maps for the same period of time.
I don't think "burnt out" is a good word for it, but I'll use it, and I also think this misses the biggest part of having a rotating list. The reason a rotating list would cause less "burn out" is because each year for Regionals and GenCon there would be a totally different list of maps. It doesn't matter how big the list is; what matters is that it's different.
Besides, I don't think anyone would get "burnt out" if the map list was just 6 months old. If so, there is no helping that at all, and a rotating map list of any kind would never change that.
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Outside of Regional/Gencon "season" there is no map list (essentially) as the Floor Rules now sanction any format at the LGS level.
No map list? I'm not sure what you mean. Do you mean that there aren't big enough events for the restricted list to matter? If so, that's patently false. There are a number of "off-season" events that use the restricted list, and I know that plenty of LGSs would use the rotating map list in regular tournaments (we certainly would here). That nobody cares about the restricted list outside of the Regional/GenCon season is a huge assumption and in my experience 100% untrue. Why in the world do you think that?
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Referring to it as a season is flawed logic. I could very easily throw the same argument that its a pre season of Regionals followed by the season of Gencon or a season of regionals followed by a post season, many of those are often at "different venues" so a change wouldnt be so off there.
But nobody DOES think of it in those ways. People do, however, think of Regionals as being connected to GenCon. It can very reasonably be considered a "season", and that's a term that we have actually be using here in Atlanta for years to reference it. From what I've seen it's basically universally accepted that the Regionals feed into GenCon. That's why people look at Regional results when they discuss the GenCon meta (which is
literally happening in another thread right now).
So yeah, you
could use some weird, obscure definition of the "season" where Regionals and GenCon aren't the same, but you'd be the only one using that definition. At best you could call Regionals a "pre season" and GenCon the "season", but that is kind of silly since GenCon is just one weekend, and that doesn't change the fact at all that the "preseason" and "season" should have the same rules if you really want to think of it that way.
The more I think about it the more I find myself agreeing with Tim, in no small part because any counter argument seems inherently flawed or disingenuous in some way.