Alan
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I certainly respect the skill of these players, but for me, a tournament is primarily about a face-to-face encounter with an opponent online...
And all these types of tournaments... after all, with players of roughly equal skill, the one who finds more time to play will win, because it's just a game with established patterns, with the possibility of saving and replaying the map. I can't consider that this allows you to determine the real skill of the players.
Therefore, I think all these arguments are a bit irrelevant...
Yes, in one of the topics, Natasha wrote to me that this gives players the opportunity to showcase their skills and that she won't play online with those she doesn't know, BUT... now I'll give an example from another game, namely Warcraft 3 (although perhaps I'll be told that the games are too different and the comparison is inappropriate). I've seen many times how a beginner, practically not playing offline, would go into Battle.net and play. If he had the ability to learn and started visiting websites with game tactics, then after a few weeks, he would crush all his friends who didn't go online, with a significant lead, often even one against two. Because only online play provides experience from real games, where one mistake and you're out, where decisions are made in fractions of a second, and as a result, the difference in skill is simply huge.
I may have written all this a bit off-topic, and I'm not suggesting that offline tournaments should be stopped and everyone should switch to online, because everyone has already expressed their views on their busyness and the impossibility of online play. Although, again, if you find time on weekends, as most people here write, to play offline for hours, what prevents you from spending those same hours online?... It's just that this is my position regarding any offline tournament; I don't see any difference between them, and even more so, I don't want to argue about "here you're stronger, and there he is..."
P.S. It turned out a bit rambling; if anyone thinks that I'm not on topic, I can delete everything, and we'll pretend that an offline tournament against the AI is cool.
P.S.S. Now, on topic.
The participants in the 2-player tournament are, preliminarily:
Qwerty
Prorock
VDV forever
Zingel
Sergh
AlexeyPank
vbs
The discussion of the maps will be on Tuesday, but there will be no voting; I will choose the map myself. This is so that no one knows where we will be playing until the last moment.
And all these types of tournaments... after all, with players of roughly equal skill, the one who finds more time to play will win, because it's just a game with established patterns, with the possibility of saving and replaying the map. I can't consider that this allows you to determine the real skill of the players.
Therefore, I think all these arguments are a bit irrelevant...
Yes, in one of the topics, Natasha wrote to me that this gives players the opportunity to showcase their skills and that she won't play online with those she doesn't know, BUT... now I'll give an example from another game, namely Warcraft 3 (although perhaps I'll be told that the games are too different and the comparison is inappropriate). I've seen many times how a beginner, practically not playing offline, would go into Battle.net and play. If he had the ability to learn and started visiting websites with game tactics, then after a few weeks, he would crush all his friends who didn't go online, with a significant lead, often even one against two. Because only online play provides experience from real games, where one mistake and you're out, where decisions are made in fractions of a second, and as a result, the difference in skill is simply huge.
I may have written all this a bit off-topic, and I'm not suggesting that offline tournaments should be stopped and everyone should switch to online, because everyone has already expressed their views on their busyness and the impossibility of online play. Although, again, if you find time on weekends, as most people here write, to play offline for hours, what prevents you from spending those same hours online?... It's just that this is my position regarding any offline tournament; I don't see any difference between them, and even more so, I don't want to argue about "here you're stronger, and there he is..."
P.S. It turned out a bit rambling; if anyone thinks that I'm not on topic, I can delete everything, and we'll pretend that an offline tournament against the AI is cool.
P.S.S. Now, on topic.
The participants in the 2-player tournament are, preliminarily:
Qwerty
Prorock
VDV forever
Zingel
Sergh
AlexeyPank
vbs
The discussion of the maps will be on Tuesday, but there will be no voting; I will choose the map myself. This is so that no one knows where we will be playing until the last moment.
Тьма - это то, что позволяет смертным не забывать, как ярок бывает свет.
