I've thought that about many decisions in the past that turned out to cause much more drama than expected.
Give the people a chance to solve this like proper adults, would be interesting to see if we grew as a community.
Silly old man! That will never happen.
I am yet to see a vote on this forum once come to a reasonable conclusion or not be 'fixed' in some way shape or form. So again I have no intention of doing that. The rule was there when this tournament was announced, it's the 'easiest' way to measure such a thing and I have had people ask me about this before in the past with sword tournaments or when I mentioned I'd be hosting this hence why the rule is in place. I'm not saying it's not got room to change in the future but for this edition I have no intention of changing it as I said before.
A subjective term like "those who are currently active", which has no easily definable categorisation, is definitely not the 'easiest' way of doing it. The easiest way is to set an arbitrary requirement of activity which players must meet.
When I first messaged you on Steam you said that 'active' meant that someone had played a tournament in 2021. When I then said that I have played a tournament in 2021, you moved the goalpost and said that only Native players who are playing in a different NW tournament currently can take part. I don't understand your intention if it's not to stop Maxime and I from playing. What else can I infer from an adamant determination not to change a dysfunctional rule on the pretext that it will cause drama, when thus far nobody has voiced any support for the rule other than yourself. Golden is totally right, why am I or Maxime not considered as any part of the NW community and as solely Native players? I had my own gf team for 6 months, I played 15+ tournaments, I was active for 1-2 years, I donated over 700 euros to NW prize pools, I tried to organise a tournament which would bridge Native and NW via the TWC - though it was not successful.
I simply do not understand why you maintain an outdated definition of "Native players" when clearly there is need for a more advanced categorisation which accounts for the fact that some Native players have played a lot of NW. You know that I mean none of this personally, we've always been on good terms, but in this case I cannot overstate how wrong I think you are for holding onto this rule. Saying that it will 'change in the future' is frankly deceptive; the last tournament of this format happened several years ago and it's unlikely to happen again for a long time. We both know that, so it's hardly any consolation or a solution by itself.
If you truly believe it would cause drama to change the rule so that it includes better categorisations and more definitive definitions, add a poll as Tardet suggests and see if there's genuine support for excluding myself and Maxime.
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