Alright so the 'banning guns' thread gave me an idea and I'd like to make a separate thread outlinining my thoughts and see if it's something the competitive community would be interested in pursuing.
Current System
A setup can only be comped once every 3 rounds
Variants are at mod discretion on a case-by-case basis
Proposed Changes
A setup can only be comped once every 5 rounds
Established variants kept on a running list (that will be public); new variants looked at by mods on a case-by-case basis
Goals
Improve diversity: This would mean that you'd only see certain setups at minimum every 50 days or 2 months or so (assuming ~10 day rounds). At minimum, you would see 30 different setups before seeing the same one comped again, allowing for a greater variety of setups to get exposure and giving people an opportunity to run on setups they like that may be less popular.
Tighten up what constitutes as a variant: makes things more objective and less on what the current admin/mod team thinks. This way there won't be as much debate over what is a variant or not the day of the round, it'll be pre-established and known, so people will know what they can and cannot comp
Please discuss. I'd also like to hear what the current mods think of this since they're the ones who will be enforcing this.
1.We have had rounds in which an anon version of a setup which was comp'ed the previous round has been comp'ed. This is totally not-ok and needs to change. 2.Also setups like A&R and A&D are basically a variant of each other and they're played the exact same way with almost same payout. Add these 2 to what bronto said and EM's competitive rounds are gonna be way more fun than now.
This is definitely part of the problem, but it doesn't really solve the issue of motivating the general EM crowd to make a new comp-viable setup every now and then. I feel like there should be a whole system for that all on its own. A new setup challenge/competition every month with a few competent judges seems like a good idea.
deleteddeletedover 11 years ago
I am a baby riotkilling brontosaurus
deleteddeletedover 11 years ago
If half the people here who want this change think about when they last played red heart LOBL, the answer is probably somewhere between months ago and never.
deleteddeletedover 11 years ago
this will just make it so there are more rounds where nothing good is competitive. the only way to get more good comp setups is to have setup building competitions for tokens.
