Ascended wrote:
Why are the No-Mod pool so difficult? This is way beyond 40k. Aren't tournaments supposed to be fun? Cause I can tell you right now that I've had 0 fun trying to practice these maps. There's no sense of accomplishment in me slugging it out with another team holding 20x combo before dropping every 5 seconds (IMO). I don't feel it represents any meaningful purpose. Sure it's fine if they're only hard to the lower rank limit but when they're so hard that even the average/top runners struggle, I don't feel it's going to be any fun to anyone. For example, it's like making someone at #5000 play Defenders, sure they can pass it, but it's not any fun when you're struggling to hold even a small combo.
I didn't think the map pool was overall difficult. I made the map pool, so that is would challenge people at our rank to play them, but still possible to do. I added some old maps because I thought it would be a good idea to challenge your reading skills on maps. Staying with the norm of everything being AR 9 is not a good idea to progress as a player. Learning to read lower ARs helps out not only reading, but also rhythm placement because it doesn't feel as natural, so you have to go with the beat. My intention was not to make the tournament no fun, but to make it a learning experience as well as a place to compete against others with the fun and enjoyment of oh I could do better here, here, and here as that is what I am weak at and then work on it. People wanted stream maps, so I gave them 3 of the better sub 5 star stream maps out there. People wanted harder maps, so I added Big Money, AR8 hidden and Scatman as a different source than what they are used to to learn from. I made like a 2 page document explaining each map and why I choose them in this pool. I didn't just go in and just say FU to everyone by just picking random maps to troll. I put though into this thing, and for the average rank it is a pretty solid pool. Is it harder than the last pool yeah it is. Is it more finger killing of fluffy people... I guess so, but it is possible. Making combos isn't how I look at the game. Yeah it is cool to FC a map and get that pp, but you only get better by experiencing different things in different environments. Sorry you aren't having fun learning the map pool, but sometimes you just have to hate things to get better at something you do.
TLDR:
I made the map pool to help you progress and not make you feel like you aren't having fun. These maps are something I put time in and I hope everyone does well in the tournament. (TBH Scatman was a full on troll against the 30ks XD)
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[ Yui ]