10 Things Learned From WitS (wherein I don't mince words on some things):

[grayfox]

So, while this is meant to be my observations, both positive and negative, I openly note that I feel strongly about some of this and I may get a little inflammatory here (because some things really annoyed me). I'm not trying to egg anyone on or troll anyone. If anything, I'm hoping discussion on these points will help me figure out how to do some

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[ihatecheese]

I think this is the first tournament ever where I dueled just for the hell of it. I guess I've never gotten into the "whose character is stronger" arguments so I don't care about duels, because it doesn't matter to me who would win. Hence why the ones I wrote in this tournament just ended in the two characters agreeing to spar and then laying off after a good workout. That was fun, but I'll never understand why people are "OMG! Must duel!" Your comment about the lack of dueling when people were complaining about wanting to duel is kind of sad in an amusing way, though.

Since people were bitching about the clusterfuck thing a lot, I've been thinking about that some too. Having not been in a tournament for a while, I'm not sure how much of this is gradual evolution and how much was unique to this tournament. But it seemed to me that back in "the day" if you wanted to have your character fight a boss or NPC you'd just write a post where you did it, maybe if you had a friendly character who you knew wanted to help you'd write a two against one thing. Sure, maybe six other people did the same thing, but it all worked out. At least for me. You can easily imagine these fights taking place at different times. In WitS sponsors were treating these missions like you had to all be working together (in fairness, some of the missions were things that only one person or team could hope to accomplish), and I think that's the part where it got silly. If someone wanted to be like, "Hey, who's fighting Magneto?" and you find out there's already a rigidly-decided writing order and outline of how the fight will happen, that's not very fun. In general, I think I am going to avoid any future situation where I must join a channel and the topic is continually being updated with a posting order that must be followed.

I don't think SHINE got a very good in-action test because there were a lot of drops/no-shows. What was it, one person eliminated from damage before the semifinals? That's just silly. However, you should feel pretty well confident that the finals had representation amongst people who were playing the game. Trust me on this. ;)

I like Gina, but you know what I said about the librarians already. I guess we're in the minority on that one.