Many of you are nervous to join the competitive lobby competition, understandably so. Players there can be uppity.
However, if enough of you, the players of training lobby, join the competition in competitive lobby, you'll be able to play with each other! You'll outnumber the competitive players and be able to enjoy the competitive atmosphere with fellow training players!
What better round to join than this upcoming round?
With a view to encouraging them to make the move to comp and play a game or two there. I've noticed the strats/gameplay in both setups don't vary between the lobbies, so it should be fairly simple for players to make the move using these 2 setups.
I've noticed a load more training lobby players in the current comp round.
B2NS and JATW are the top 2 played setups in that round atm and (imo) the easiest to learn the mechs of. I'll be hosting both setups in training when I'm not in comp - unranked and ranked; try and get more players practising both, improving scumhunting and strat knowledge.
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Trial mods was to test potential, really. Ignorance of certain terms and lingo doesn't mean unqualified. A trial period would show the mods how quickly people were able to adapt to new duties. Not every player joins this site with the intent to become qualified to mod. It's a website. Not a college course.
By the way, "this will turn into more reports filed" is a bad excuse, like someone else said. First of all the only reason there's so many reports is because of the nature of competitive and trophy runs there. There would be many less reports in training. Second of all even though I said that there are a lot fewer apps than one would expect there are certainly enough for one or two extra mods, and I doubt more than an extra pair would be necessary.
I don't think guns are really a good thing to add to training though, not unless you decide to add all roles to training or something (not a terrible idea but it just would kind of defeat the original thought of training setups being more simple), because they fit (at least IMO) on the "complex" type of mods.
stevens right though he articulated the point much btter than i did
but like wasnt the point of trial mods also to train them eventually so theyd move on to be global mods? moderators at the time still guided trial mods didnt they idk
i was talking about teaching as in the basic of the basics. its pointless to teach people who want to be moderators what steven said in his qualification paragraph.
