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Balrog0 posted...

AsucaHayashi posted...

while i agree that it's arbitrary both ways whether it's what the community or devs have in mind, i'm far more inclined to believe the direction the devs choose for their games seeing as that's how nearly every other competitive game is played out there... except for smash.

Depends on what you mean. That may be true for direct competition games (I'm really not sure)

But, for example, to the extent one views speed running as competitive, that's certainly not the case there are plenty of arbitrary restrictions on what you can or cannot do depending on what kind of style of speed run you want to do, or whether you are doing a tool-assisted run or not, that kind of thing

my only point is that since the smash community "randomly" chooses to exclude x/y/z, there's pretty much nothing stopping them from someday choosing to reapply x/y/z in that same game and calling it the "proper" way to play.

it's 100% up to the individual tournament holder and what they believe should be the "proper" showcase of player skill.

by following the dev's vision as closely as possible, that arbitrary element becomes a non-issue since there's only one way to decide player skill across the board.

speedrunning also has random restrictions like no glitch/no TA etc. but i kinda respect them more for it since i've seen them divide them up in categories and let people play how they choose.
on the flipside i severely doubt i'll see an items-on/all-stages available smash tournament at evo in the near future.
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