by cha cha Mon Mar 03, 2014 12:08 pm
^ That'd have to be a real po' dunk tournament with absolutely nothing close to even a level 1 DCI judge present, lol. Since even the most efficient Mill decks are tier C strategies, espeicially if this was pre-JTMS.
But yea scrubs running scrub tournaments can definitely be a toxic environment. Because then you have to deal with a group of like-minded idiots who agree based on their own rules and assumptions.
With the massive online resources and accessibility to rules, forums and information galore..on a handheld device. There is almost no excuse in this day and age for tossing people out of a tournament when playing within the rules of the game.
I remember WAYYYYYYYY back in 90's anime convention Fighting Game tournaments, they'd have so crazy rules too. Completely subjective, bias and unenforceable stuff like- "no corner trapping", "no infinites", "no being cheap", "no spamming cheap moves"... shit like that would be on official convention rule sets! I was tossed out of an Otakon GGX tournament for "corner trapping" with Baiken's tatami mat set up... EVEN AFTER I explained to the 'judge' of how it was escapable and the opponent simply did not know how to escape it properly...needless to say, thank god Fighting Game tournies outgrew having to depend on conventions to draw people and became independent. Those environments had too many people in-charge without proper experience, and too many friends of people serving their own interests to get their friends lame prizes etc.
But yea, these bozos have moved on to online play now, where they still use their imaginary rules and their own "honor code" and there is no logical voice to control or argue it to them. So if you don't play by their made up rules of how a "good" player should play, and you aren't psychic lol, you the one who gets booted/flamed and so on.
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