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DrTentacles:
Of course. You're not getting paid for being competitive. This isn't Dota or Starcraft or LoL. The only thing that distinguishes SCS from a vet match are signups and brackets. It's all psychological.

Traditionally, however, SCS has been a place to experiment, and keep sharp. It feels like it's taking a decidedly...I don't want to say "Try hard" attitude, because I'm of the view that if you're playing a game, you should always be playing to win, but something along those lines.

(I also really like the leaderboard in theory--I think good clans should have a place to prove they're good in the public eye, but if it leads to people being less willing to experiment, teach, and play around, that's a recipe for a stale metagame, and boring, over-serious matches in a very, very tiny community.)

SteamyNoodle:
I think a large part of the reason the SCS has been taken more seriously recently is down to the relative infrequency of any other events.  3/4 weeks it's the most serious event running, because there's just nothing else on.  We had the Blood and Brass, but unless I'm wrong that was the first non-SCS or Aerodrome event since... the Blossoming Coliseum?  In April?

6 months is a hell of a lot of downtime with no other place for more experienced teams to go for more organized play, seems perfectly natural to me that people would start taking it more seriously.  The idea that it's supposed to be used to train for other events when those other events literally don't exist seems kind of odd to me.

Ayetach:

--- Quote from: MightyKeb on November 12, 2015, 11:26:32 am ---Make a tournament specifically designed to try out quirky features for use in tournaments ie. random ship pairings, blindpicks

Put it in a vacant time where it doest coincide with any important events or life stuff for teams.

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You mean this?


--- Quote from: MightyKeb on November 12, 2015, 12:37:18 pm ---Technically, back in blood and brass we tried hard for imaginary hats and badges (Which we still havent gotten as of yet by the way), ...

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These are also on the way, I'm working with the artists on finishing up the badges.

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