MarsPhoenix wrote:I give up. I honestly can't believe how little care about the low quality judging and the increasing vagueness and skewing of the rules. I just can't wrap my brain around it.
Throughout the various tournaments I've had the opportunity to run, I have had some very tight rulesets, and some very loose ones; like this one.
On one level, there was a lot of vague issues that weren't handled well this tournament. Will those hopefully all be fixed for next time? I sure hope so.
On the other hand though, the former tournaments (when heavy rulesets were applied) would become more of a scientific "let's see what file followed the rules to the letter, and seemed the most Konami authentic." The discussions that took place were extremely boring, and were analytical breakdowns of the files, instead of looking back and saying "well, did I actually have fun playing this file?"
This tournament has not been the best introduction for the new people here to the site (or the tournaments I run). It seems like the majority of newcomers were expecting a very strict, very detailed tournament, and very precise methods for dissecting simfiles. Had the tournament been like that, I think more of the new people here, or old time authors visiting that haven't been in tournaments for a while may have enjoyed it better.
Not to mention that different people in the community like different structure formats. I don't think I've ever ran two consecutive tournaments
entirely the same. I try to take feedback from the previous one (the last complaints, being that judges should be brought back) and make them work the next time. A lot of the attitudes that have been around this tournament have been really discouraging to me. Either one part didn't go as someone expected, so they're out of here; or people were a little abrasive to each other.
So I'm going to open it up for feedback in a new way. I recently came across a sort of bug-tracking/digg/reddit like combination that allows members to give feedback and make comments. It looks pretty cool, and so after the tournament is over I'll be opening that up.
But for the tournament to be a strict, very formulaic system (or something along those lines) wasn't the attempt of this tournament (to some of your discouragement).
If you guys want a tournament more structured and less opinion based - I'd be more than happy to give something like that.
I run these tournaments based off what the public wants, mixed with what I think will be fun ways of reaching what they want.
Seriously.
So if you didn't like it; throwing in the towel may work as a temp solution, but it will never be as good as working to make it better for everyone in the end.