Warmups have been removed since OWC2020, there has been a lot of internal discussion around the following issues (copied from my twitter):Crowley wrote:
im gonna try and spark the discussion here but is there any reason why warmups were removed?
- A lot of time wasted being ready, specially from teams with awful download speed trying to download warmups
- People pick BIG files for warmups to waste even more time
- Client sometimes has issues loading files, restarting the client takes time too
- Matches start so late after warmups that ends going over the designated schedule missing other teams warmups.
- Inappropriate warmups, some of those takes time to get why is inappropriate because of source, hitsounds, long mp3, bg, different language, etc.
- Warmups are uploaded close to the match so people have even less time to DL > more delays
