Should the FFR Official Tournament Only Use New Files?

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Originally Posted by psychoangel691

As of right now there's no way the official will happen in the summer if it's all new charts. There's not enough in queue and things are backed up. Finding the right charts to fill out that many rounds in that many divisions that are of appropriate difficulty is difficult when things are running normally. How things are now I would anticipate the tournament wouldn't start till late September.

I don't mean to hijack this thread by going too far off onto a tangent, but I think that, as a whole, the mass of submissions that are still pending judgement could cover the greater part of what would be at most 7x10 slots, and that slots at either end of the difficulty spectrum can be specifically filled if needed as per usual. It's just that the ratio of the amount of effort it takes to process and accept content for the game to the ratio that it takes simply to create that content is so monstrous that it has historically reflected in backups and lateness and now in this case stagnation. I simply don't think that the current process under a reduction in activity can persist; in fact, it already has ceased, and that doesn't bode well for organizing activity-producing events such as the official tournament. But I know that it's a quite inopportune time to implement or even contemplate such drastic changes given the calamity of recent events.