[MikeShinoda12345]

I want to be more careful of what I say because I feel like I'm on the upper end of my division and therefore have an inherent bias in favor of this tournament's structure, but I really like the idea of beginning the tournament at higher levels of difficulty and feel like much of the complaining is simply due to this being unexpected given previous tournaments

To perform well on a difficult song drives improvement AND is more fun than whoring a song repeatedly to shave a couple goods off your SDG. AAA-or-die cutoffs are less indicative of skill, I feel, and I'm really happy to see things moving in this direction and understand that the FFR staff have needed to intentionally request a lot of high-difficulty files from stepfilers in order to make this tournament play out this way

edit: yeah this is in response specifically to the song thing and not the larger debate about divisions