AmaiHachimitsu wrote:
Would you mind, in the next mappool, restrain yourselves from putting a shitload of unranked maps in it?
Not only there's higher chance for it to be updated by the author, it is just wrong to follow this strange trend that appeared.
No, it's not unique and neither it is innovative.
There are more than enough good maps that are ranked.
I'm not saying that unranked maps are bad, but please pick them only if they are really spot-on choices, because it seems you choose unranked maps because they are ... unranked. 1-2 per mappool will do.
You know there are too many tournaments nowadays, and the quantity of existing ranked maps, especially which are suitable enough for tournaments, are not really... very high regarding the numbers of tournaments. If we focus only on ranked maps, we will, inevitably, have MANY repeated choices over the other tournaments, in which players of our tournaments may have just took part several months or even days ago. All in all, we don't want to leave players the impression "wow, I'm joining many tournaments and I find myself playing the same maps again and again". We need special maps that can represent our tournament.
In fact, the ranked maps really outnumbered the unranked maps. We limited the amount of unranked maps in an acceptable scale. That's also what we'd like the players to play: MANY ranked maps as well as SOME unranked maps.
And, all the maps including the ranked and unranked ones have been examined carefully among the map selectors, we decline maps that are not hitsounded, not well-timed or have many random jumps/streams. The quality of the unranked maps is not lower than the ranked ones,and it's unranked just because it has some unrankable patterns, do not have a whole mapset (having no lower diffs) or the mapper is too lazy to get it modded and ranked. Besides, many unranked maps in this pool are really once qualified and then DQed.
Thank you for your feedback, however I don't want to change it. Really sorry for that.