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Lady Madera's post (5/15/2001) on the banning of regeneration items from BotBs.

http://web.archive.org/web/200106281...ML/000534.html

Dear Gladiators,
I think we may have not given you a complete enough explanation for removing the regeneration items from the Best of the Best. In order to be fair to everyone in all of the Best of the Best we, on the Events Team, thought we would relate to you why we did this.

One of the reasons is sheer time. Many of the matches can last up to one hour. Does anyone remember the Paladins Best of the Best? It is virtually impossible to have the Events Team, server GM and Guide staff to support such lengthy matches on 40 servers. Would we like too? Absolutely!! But if we did that there would be one Best of the Best class Tournament once every several months. According to my math it would take us over 2 years to run one sweep of every class for the Best of the Best.

The second reason is that this competition is to determine the “best of the best” for each class. The player who has the best strategy, the best tactics. Yes armor plays a factor, however skill is paramount. More than once I have seen a 56 level player wipe the ground with a 60 level player. In both cases the 56th level did not have armor as good as the 60th, but out classed them in skill. For this reason armor, weapons etc are not as important as the players ability to use whatever he/she has at their disposal.

On the flip side had we not made some changes we would have had to 1) set a higher level cap for competitors 2) capped the # of players who could compete or 3) had a single server competition span over two nights to allow all competitors to have their turn. All three of these things would have been extremely unfair and inconvenient to the players. Many many players take time off from work and or stay up late (some past 4am their time) in order to participate in their servers Best of the Best. In fairness to all players who wish to compete we need to keep the matches capable to be run in one night, in the shortest possible time. Most tournaments currently take anywhere from 6-12 hours. (anyone remember the Paladins?) With our growing high level population we want as many as possible to compete, in order to do this we decided to remove one thing that would shorten the matches and make the Gladiator rely on his/her skill over an item. Did we want to do this? No of course not. We would rather let you use what ever item you wish too, we know how much hard work goes into obtaining these items. We are working on future events where you can use all your items unfortunately that isn’t the case for the Best of the Best.

I hope this clears up the reasons for this decision. If you have any further questions on this matter please write to us at eventmaster@station.sony.com


Sincerely
Lady Madera the Chosen
Namdarie the Steadfast
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