Will the lower divisions be adjusted too? I'd suggested something like
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D1 00-30 (31)
D2 31-50 (20)
D3 51-62 (12)
D4 63-72 (10)
D5 73-82 (10)
D6 83-92 (10)
D7 93-101 (9)
D8 102+
A while ago, with the goal of making the divisions be smaller or at least not larger as you moved up the divisions. D3 being 9 skill ratings big and D5 being 14 just really made no sense except from a perspective of placing the divisions around the player list to make the number of PLAYERS in each division get smaller, which is sort of the backwards way to go around it when we don't have a system where people gain ranking at the expense of others losing ranking.
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Originally Posted by _Zenith_
D1 still exists, however, he is only saying that because there was no D1 participants in this years Official Tournament.
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There were definitely D1 participants in the OT. There were just too few, combined with not enough low level songs, to split low level players into 2 divisions. At the start of the OT, there were players as low as Skill rating 7, 10, 12 and 16 in division "2" along with players as high as skill rating 51. So the "low division" ended up being basically "Everybody at 51 and under" so the dozen or so people under 30 were sort of hooped from the get-go.
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There is literally enough of a gap to the very top players to justify (in theory) a D10 (starting at like 113), however we dont make divisions for 2-3 people and the game lacks content to justify that too.
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Do you think this problem gets solved by just finally making completely explicit the lack of connection between "Division on the leaderboard" and "Division placement in the OT"?
Like, creating D10 for the people over 113 isn't forcing you to add a D10 to the OT and put only the D10 people into it with 8 songs just for them. The division placement in OTs should be the thing shaped around the players who sign up to create the most balanced tournament in terms of players per division and skill rating range per division. There's really not much difference between a 58 and 59 player, so creating this gulf between them for official competition seems very weird compared to putting 50s in with 10s and 69s in with 82s rather than looking at "Just the subset of people who signed up for the tournament" and splitting them up in a vacuum.