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[Poll] Themed Rounds

thebrontosaurus
over 10 years

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

  1. At least one gun each comped by comp winners
  2. Dawn Start + No Guns
  3. 10 Players
  4. Day 1 MYLO + No Guns
  5. No Reveal
  6. Setups with fewer than 200 plays + No Guns
  7. Multi-setup
  8. 8 Players + No Guns
  9. 3rd Parties Allowed
  10. 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.

Thnaks guys. Don't forget to vote in the poll

Good idea?
24
No, leave Comp as it is
7
Yes, I think this is a good idea
1
Maybe with some changes [Please discuss!]
Peta
over 10 years
Just get rid of guns
deletedover 10 years
back in single lobbies, before each trophy winner picked setups lucid would give a requirement for the setups like "one setup must have fool" or "one setup must be a multi-setup" then as long as the requirement was met for 1 setup, the rest didn't matter. do that
deletedover 10 years
just do requirements for round setups to have, those worked
thebrontosaurus
over 10 years
If I was ignoring history I'd go ahead and just implement it without asking.

I don't think this is a terrible idea, but I'm not going to do if a majority don't want it. That being said, given that chances are guns won't get removed, I figured that this would also be a happy medium for people who want to get a chance to play a round without guns or certain setups that normally don't fill in Comp.
Giga
over 10 years
Giga
over 10 years

Shivv says

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This is a decent post which provides much value and input on the matter
deletedover 10 years
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Giga
over 10 years
We're fine rn imo

If you want to change it up just make it so that a maximum of one gun setup can be comped per 2 rounds, and that no setup can be repeated for 4 rounds instead of 3 regardless of the number of plays it received (removing the less than 20 plays stipulation for comping setups)
deletedover 10 years
themed rounds are a very bad idea imo.
Mike
over 10 years
Themed rounds are pointless. We only have 2 popular comp demographics: Jan 2.0 variants and VDLI variants. No matter what you comp one of these will become the only setup to fill making this whole endeavour pointless.

Not sure why we're ignoring EM history, however that has been the result every time restrictions were placed on setups.
deletedover 10 years
10 players is the only thing I see a problem with because of timezones and difficulty in finding 10 players at times. I'd suggest adding at least one 8p setup for that round.