Should the FFR Official Tournament Only Use New Files?

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The issue right now isn't the speed of the judges.

The issue is that there officially are none.

And the backlog only grows right now, because the batch is still open for some reason. Until the batch judges are re-selected, there's pretty much zero reason for the batch to be open, because all they're doing is increasing the backlog. There's also no reason to be going three songs a week with the queue being so low either.

But I don't think the batch speed is why the question was asked. The question was more of, "Would the site see it as a bad thing if we were to hold the tournament sooner, and use in-game files in the mix of new ones; or would the site prefer to see a tourney that possibly gets delayed, but has brand new files?"

I'm not trying to speak for Kayla here, but that's how the wording leads me to interpret it.

The answer at the moment seems that users want a delay, and are ok with it as long as they get newer material out of the deal. Which is fine really. I mean, I love the idea of completely new files for every tourney, but I can't say I object to the notion of using older ones either. I think viewing it as similar to a user tourney that gets over hyped is a bit unfair, but I get where that idea comes from.

If I can be of help, let me know. Even if it's just helping organize and format things like the responses.

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Let's get back to work then, shall we?

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Yeah pretty much. I mean I really want it in the summer because that always gets the best participation rate and is better for most users in terms of timing. But I didn't want to just go ahead and throw in old files to do it without bringing it up and discussing it first.
I'm just really hoping I don't have to hold off until late fall or winter. There's 195 files in queue total right now from what I saw in the queue batch thread which when you figure how many will actually get accepted isn't very much. I had no idea how low it had been for the last month, only 20 submissions.

If this month simfile authors start thinking in terms of the tournament and get files in that would fit some of those odd slots I'm hoping that maybe I can shoot for August for the tournament.

I don't know, I'll keep you all posted on what's going on. It's a little all over the place right now. I believe silvuh said he'd do group 1 as well on the oldest batch which would give us the 4 we need. I'm going to do as many as I can of the 195 and have one other that is going to as well. Not sure if Nathan was intending on doing the same. If he is then we might be able to bang these out somewhat quickly because we could do a 3 judge rating type deal and then have like silvuh or doss look over files where there's any major score differences kind of thing.

I'm rambling now, I'll shut up lol.

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I will say though: It's really nice to see staff communicating with us. This is how it should be instead of it all behind the scenes. I think public updates more often can only do good.

^_^

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So are you saying that we should concentrate on stepping difficulty 1-20 and 90-99 in this batch?

Gotcha.

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Where did you get this idea?

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We don't use 1 - 14, D1 usually starts with a 15. We're usually lacking in files from the 15 to like 50ish range. A lot of the files that come in seem to fit the old 10 and 11 ranges (I suck at remembering the new scale, sorry).

For the higher range I'd probably say look at the 80 and up range for things we're missing.

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Hmmm time to start fixing a few of my files that fall in this range I think.

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i say we should keep it with all new files...only because its more of a challenge to see a new file that you never tried and it makes you wanna try to tame it more and more...till your fingers break! it drives you to wanna take the challenge head on knowing that its new...not just to win but because its fun to push your self to wanna beat it...or anything~!! i admit adding some old here and there sounds fine...but you might be in that round where those few peeps just so happened to know that file and play it...its kinda like a unfair advantage...in some ways...but i dont mind but i just see it as a easier way out... new songs = more challenge ....its the best way to put it...i guess... p~p

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i agree with everyone in this thread

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I agree with you agreeing with everyone in this thread.

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just realized my vote in the poll was no i meant to say yes oops

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It's alright I noticed your post was different from your vote.

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the widdim game

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August would be cool as I'm traveling to Oxford in July

Honestly I just want my file released lol, I now realize that it's probably useful as a tourney file even if it's in the common 60s range, enjoy

Also I voted for all new files as that's my honest opinion, the situation probably doesn't call for that as a solution but oh well, that's how it goes. A mix would be cool, the thing I foresee though (I know at least for me) is that when old files are announced as round songs, I'm gonna be like *sigh*, this file again.. blah