In light of the recent discussion surrounding guns and their viability in competitive play, Pranay and others have come up with an idea to try and mitigate the problem with having too many gun rounds by creating themes for each round in comp lobby.
This would be a loose guideline, but also encourage setup diversity without being too heavily restrictive on what can be comped. Ideally, we'd have a 10 round cycle with different requirements. Something along the lines of the following
This is just an example and is by no means what may happen. Please feel free to discuss any ideas
At least one gun each comped by comp winners
Dawn Start + No Guns
10 Players
Day 1 MYLO + No Guns
No Reveal
Setups with fewer than 200 plays + No Guns
Multi-setup
8 Players + No Guns
3rd Parties Allowed
Free Choice + No Guns
The goal would be to try and encourage diversity in setup selection and allow people to run more frequently on different types of setups, so as to discourage setups that tend to dominate round play. This would also aim to try and keep people happy who like all different types of setups and angles.
This is all just discussion and I'm curious to see where it ends up. Nothing may come of it, but I'd really like to hear the community opinion on something like this because I think it could work if done properly and help boost participation in Comp Lobby.
This would matter if there were more than two popular setup demographics, in banning guns or whatever you're removing that demographic and leaving the prevailing 2.
You're literally defining the setup you want to run each round with this iteration of "themed rounds".
this is just to keep the idiots from banning guns. i gave them something to chew on. I know how to tame bronto. Just the way i can tame the clears holding guns
Keep themes in the training lobby, but push the idea of not using setups that will be exclusively played (like Jan 2.0, A&X, etc) over the introduction of other setups.
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Maybe 1/2. Other than this this is honestly the best idea.
Most of the suggestions in the OP will make for silly rounds where people are literally just waiting for them to be over.
Ex. 6, 9. 1 is going to be a 1 setup round as people pick the best gun setup. The player limits are kind of silly.
Day 1 MyLo only is an awful idea too because without guns the setups are statistically scumsided 100% of the time, and literally every setup would be this way.
these themes will not be forced. winners will be encouraged to follow the theme. but they wont be forced. so please vote yes. with this themed comp we can enjoy interesting combinations. also we have many themes which do not restrict anything
Rounds don't have a fixed time frame, so people could see a forever long stretch with no guns. Eh. It'd be okay, I guess, but most some people would be unhappy.
You should really make this a lobby poll instead of just a forum poll since it affects everyone, not just forumgoers. :x
theme rounds -> more 'fun' setups -> more new players willing to try comp -> larger playerbase -> more competitive comp lobby -> more future rounds to come
note how almost everyone who's voted no is a spastic tryhard
