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I think both sides have good points, but both sides are extremely flawed. If the reason for not allowing Native 'stacked' teams is because you want the tournament to be fun for the NW community (because it's an NW tournament so it makes sense) then why include Native players in the first place? You're probably like 'Because we want to include both communities!', yet at the same time there's very few top Native 1H duellists/group fighters who're A. Willing to participate in an NW tournament and B. Have any interest in group fighting in 2020. If we were being honest, which both sides aren't, the reason for the inclusion of 'Native' players is so the top teams can take the best active native group fighters who're obviously going to excel and have a large positive impact on the team. It's a bit silly being like 'We want the tournament to be fun so we're only allowing one native player', and then steal the best Native players, it's a win tactic. If it were all about the NW community and 'fun', you'd not have included the native players in the first place as you're already limiting native players from playing anyways. You either include both sides of the community, or neither; you can't pick and choose to suit your team or one side.
It's completely unreasonable saying it's for 'fun', then limiting the Native community (when there's already a lack of Native duellists who're willing to play).
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trot888
A jedi does not deal in absolutes 
. In all seriousness, I think it's fair for the tournament hosts to attempt to find a balance between the two extremes of "allowing full native teams" and "not allowing any native players". As you said there are arguments for both sides, and that is exactly why some sort of compromise is the best outcome. Simply excluding the native community that plays NW is not the aim of this tournament and that would be a silly rule to add/enforce. On the other hand, it is fair that the organizers want to keep this NW tournament fun for all NW players by not allowing coalitions of too many native players. So removing this rule completely is also not an option.
I agree that 1 native player max might be a bit harsh. As it would mean that every native player that wishes to participate would have to find a team of NW players in a community that he is unfamiliar with. Or it could lead to situations where friends like Darklight and Charlini (who always seem to play NW together) have to split up into different teams. Leading to a situation where one of them, or both might decide to not participate at all. Which would be a shame. Maybe it would be easier/cause less conflict if the rule was changed to max of 2 native players per team. There is still an NW element in every team, but it also makes it so native friends can play together, allowing for more people to participate.
This discussion has been massively over complicated for no reason.
The rule exists so that the tournament remains fun for NW players by making them the deciding factor in every match, not the Native players. If a team were able to have 2 Native players on it, and for argument’s sake let’s say it was myself with Arni, the 3rd member - the ACTUAL NW PLAYER - would be totally irrelevant. Their job would just be to not die while the Native players play the game. How is that ideal when it’s an NW tournament?
The discussion about Charlini and Darklight is nonsense. Charlini is the founder of FT, one of the greatest Native teams of all time, and while Darklight started as an NW cav player some years ago he has had Native as his main module for the past 4 years.
If Charlini and Darklight were to be counted as NW players, you’d have to count myself, LaPache and Maxime as NW players too. You don’t need many brain cells to see how stacked a team you could then make. I’d be able to make a team that was me, Arni and Maxime. That team would be unbeatable on Native in 3v3, so how does it seem reasonable to anyone to let such a stack ruin the fun for any/all NW players that are interested in this tournament?
