Rayne wrote:
Difference between a tournament and an average multi is that the other one rewards a price and is also about competing against other people of similar skill.
DigitalHypno is far above these players and let's not kid ourselves, intentionally keeps his rank low enough to still fall into the ranking criteria for 4 digit tournaments so he can have easy wins and stroke his ego.
I do not have time to make full research but I assume there is way more tournaments at 4-digit range than 2-digit. How about argument that he play this game for tournaments and need solid amount of them to keep rolling? I just skimmed on his profile and honestly, there is one thing what I could say (and this might be an argument later on) - He does participate in high tier tournaments for 1-2-3-digits actively too.
Rayne wrote:
And no, you won't beat him by practicing the map pools. That's like saying I can beat Cookiezi on any map if I just try hard enough.
This guy is 100% aware of what he's doing. Again, let's take the league comparison. Say I start a tournament and declare low to high silver the skillrange. Then some guy comes along whos actually just a Masters smurf and stomps everything. The silver players fault for not playing at above masters level, right?
Please refrain from comparing osu! to league. Both games have completely different gameplay, skill types, skill progression, skill ceiling. This situations cannot be compared properly. As far as in league being a "smurf" is same as being a dickhead and I fully agree with this (had Diamond in S4, quit in S5, never had smurfs since I was always against that). Main difference between low rank league player and high rank was in my times, mainly reaction time and speed of making correct decisions. Dunno how it looks now, heard riot made this an even bigger shithole than it was in S5 where I quit.
osu! is about your own skill. On same map, if 4-digit manage to pull SS, it will be equal to SS made by 1-digit (only spinner may differ score). I agree that it is extremely hard to keep nerves calm while pressured by knowledge that on other side there is experienced and skilled player who will not make mistake. Yet - that is an experience. Massive impact here have your own experience at tournaments and ability to keep nerves calm, also consistency.
Rayne wrote:
Noone is saying he should FARM pp, people are giving him shit because he never submits anything that would give him ranks or just activates V2 when he knows it would. That's actively avoiding pp gain for the sake of staying low in ranks, because obviously he wouldn't be able to get free wins on tourneys otherwise and would have to actually compete with players on his level or better (Toy etc).
He was, and he done a great job in OWC, in OHC, etc. He is not avoiding high tier tournaments, he participate in them also. I would fully agree with this hate if he just played 4-digit tourneys and avoided top tier once because "boohoo no free win, need to actually prepare". No, he is active in them too. Being an 4-digit on purpose only opens for him wider range of tournaments where he can still polish his skills, which are crucial for competition. By this, maybe in the future, he might be a solid and "dangerous" tournament player with extreme consistency and no nerves, comparable with WWW for example.
Rayne wrote:
Not caring about pp realistically means = I don't care whether I get pp or not, I just play whatever.
This guy however: Oh shit this play would give me pp, let's quickly quit the song right b4 the end, play it on a private server or V2 so I can stay 4 digit hahaa.
And people are absolutely right to complain about smurfs or underrankers. The rest of your essay is just assumptions and just general hate towards people who play for pp.
You can hate them, I don't mind, but don't act like DigitalHypno is a hero or "doesn't care about pp".
This is exactly what I call point of view dependent of where you are sitting. I do not care about pp in term of I don't want to gain them (but it happen anyway, sometimes I forget that certain map doesn't have ending spinner). I have my own silly reasons for that, very silly and for 99% of people stupid.
DH is not a hero for me, I do not know him in any way, even in chat (despite tried to contact him but he just ignored me whatsoever). I just consider several points of that situation and try to discuss all of them. Take my word that I will change my opinio if all my point will get proved wrong.
Also - I don't hate farmers for "farming". I hate them for giving attention to maps which breaks ranking, breaks the system and allow dickhead shits like sotarks gain popularity to the point where even GMT jump around him sucking his dick and doing what he want (past cases of people being silenced / restricted for even giving out mods which holded his map out of ranking - I was silenced too on his Reol - Monster since my mod was about to DQ his map, I got silence for innapropiate behavior (???), my mod magically disappeared (?!?)).
Rayne wrote:
Yeah, by the time they got better, they're not 4 digit anymore (unlike certain downrankers) and DH is just farming other, new 4 digit players for e-peen.
And as I said, if I decide to typically gain ranks and jump to 4-digit (hell, till the end of the year I need to be #5k since well.... no bamboozeld deal), DH is welcome to try and "farm me". He can be sure I will not give him an easy win. And even if he trash me 5-0, I will not complain. I played against way more skilled player, eot. Point of view - I do not look at rank but at skill. Yesterday I got friendly plays with CookEasy, he won all but I gave my best to keep up with him on difficult tech maps, you know what? I respect CookEasy even more for giving me challenge because when I noticed him in multi room, when everyone else quit, we were playing. I felt the challenge and despite having ZERO chance to win, I did my best and I was happy about that.
People can complain, I am as always - in great minority with completely different point of view. I also respect others pov and opinion.
