Super Smash Bros. for 3DS & Wii U Thread 8: Put mii in, coach

Anteo said:
The problem with splitting comes from boring matches, when the players are spliting they tend to not try and this makes for boring matches that the audience hates, no one wants to see that and the TOs and Sponsors get pissed. If they just played to win, no one would even question if or why are they pot splittng. No one would know.
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In Magic, if player's decide to split the pot, they don't even play the match, they just let the judges know. I don't see why other competitive scenes can't just adopt this model.
 
Anteo said:
Spliting is not bad in itself, it can help some players to get some extra money to get to the next tournament, Ken (yes, the one is on the list) said on the documentary that he and his teammate Isai used to split the money all the time to travel to the next tournament.

The problem with splitting comes from boring matches, when the players are spliting they tend to not try and this makes for boring matches that the audience hates, no one wants to see that and the TOs and Sponsors get pissed. If they just played to win, no one would even question if or why are they pot splittng. No one would know.



I dont even understand how that would come up at all, like no one would find out anyways unless he tells to the stream. It's irrelevant.
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Ya him being gays isn't relevant to him commentating smash. But I think having a gay commentator at your E3 tournament is relevant, given the recent controversy.
 
justchris said:
In Magic, if player's decide to split the pot, they don't even play the match, they just let the judges know. I don't see why other competitive scenes can't just adopt this model.
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outright skipping grand finals or something would be even worse, can you imagine 2 people splitting and not playing it out on the main stage at Evo? that'd be awful

(not that anyone has colluded at Evo recently, stakes are too high there)
 
theprodigy said:
outright skipping grand finals or something would be even worse, can you imagine 2 people splitting on the main stage at Evo? that'd be awful

(not that anyone has colluded at Evo recently, stakes are too high there)
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I don't think Evo allows pot splitting for exactly this reason, even between teammates. It damages their show if people aren't fighting their hardest.

Though I don't know how you'd stop someone from just making the deal and doing it later.
 
justchris said:
In Magic, if player's decide to split the pot, they don't even play the match, they just let the judges know. I don't see why other competitive scenes can't just adopt this model.
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I dont know about the TGC communities, but the point is that you have sponsors that are advertising their brand on the Stream/VODs and to anyone present. If players just decide to go "ehh I wont play this" or "whatever, he is my friend, I'll pick random and Selfdestruct 3 times", that hurts both the Tournament and the sponsors a lot. Sponsors are paying to have their names along high level matches and they are getting shit and viewers (potential customers) just go away.

That is solved by just trying hard at all times, no one will ever question you didnt care about the match (suggesting pot splitting)
 
ShockingAlberto said:
I don't think Evo allows pot splitting for exactly this reason, even between teammates. It damages their show if people aren't fighting their hardest.

Though I don't know how you'd stop someone from just making the deal and doing it later.
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I dont think you can. But you also cant allow things like the Soul Calibur at EVO 2004 where 2 friends played each other at the Grand Finals and they just player whatever character they wanted. A lot of players said that it was clear they werent serious about the match. The point is that people start getting suspicious when the players dont play it all. While is true that sometimes players have bad days, there are some where it's clear they are not trying.
 
theprodigy said:
outright skipping grand finals or something would be even worse, can you imagine 2 people splitting and not playing it out on the main stage at Evo? that'd be awful
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No one does it at the huge tournaments, like amateurs, the invitational or the pro tour finals, but for smaller tournaments and qualifiers, it's fairly common.

Of course, a match in Magic can take upwards of an hour, even among professionals, so that might have a lot to do with it.
 
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Pic of the day. Characters that have heavy damage slowly start to emit steam. When your opponent starts to get nice and smoky, give 'em a solid attack!
 
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