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Originally Posted by Gradiant

Going to have to disagree somewhat. There's plenty of mid-high to lower difficulty files (there's currently like what, 1700 files?) for the players that aren't high D6 / D7, a couple more difficult files wouldn't hurt at all.

It's not a couple.

In the 9th and 10th official tournament, there are (at least) 56 songs -- in the 9th official, 36 out of 56 of the files were FMO difficulty or higher based off of current ratings, and some files were changed in rating (summerghost, for example) to not be included in this list.

When more than half (note: 65%, roughly 2/3 of the tournament files) of the files being put in the game is in the top 1/3 of the difficulty scale (which mind you, covers an extremely large range and is still likely unplayable for any of the casual players who may not have an account here), you're contending with oversaturation. Throwing a ton of super high level files in D7's path in an effort to stop them is futile and really not fair for lower division players who are also trying to contend with the influx of higher level files blasting their level ranks.

D6/D7 players aren't the only players that matter; new content for lower level players is a good thing and saying that there are x files for them to play is a bit unfair considering all of the fresh content the higher level players get. Yes, it's an inherent thing with the structure of the tournament, but that doesn't make it anymore fair for those who are not competing (or are too low to feasibly compete even at the lowest skill bracket).