I mean, I kind of view it as a double edged sword. On one hand you don't want to spam the community with competitive events or everyone involved in the competitive scene will most likely become bored and not take it as seriously. On the other hand, you have those 95% competitive oriented regiments who will just grow bored regardless because there wouldn't be multiple competitive things to do. Even if the latter isn't the bigger issue, it still is a concern to some extent. I do agree with the former and that there shouldn't be such an influx of competitive events and NA needs to chill with all the tournaments every 5 seconds in my opinion.
NA doesn't do that many tournaments anymore. We had 15 last year and 1 this year (I don't count North vs South as a real tournament) which was Jolly's Duel tournament for the lower skilled guys (Yoloswag won it under a different name so not really). I agree EUs do wayyyyyyy to many tournaments. I think their was like 30-50 melee tournaments hosted last year and that is without melee leagues & regimental leagues.
I count everything posted in the competitive events board as a competitive event. I'm not being inclusive to just tournaments or leagues but everything competitive. With that being said, yes, I do believe NA hosts quite a lot of competitive events which to me has certainly killed the appeal of them. I realize I said tournaments for NA, but I really meant competitive events in general bar individuals 1v1s or GFs.
So stuff like Tagpro or UFC counts as a competitive event? There has been a page and a half about "competitive events" from 2018 and some of them are stupid shit like what I said. 15 tournaments (including the melee leagues in this count) in a year isn't that many.
The number of competitive events for NA has NOT killed the competitive scene. What has killed it is the following:
1. The Compacting Factor- This is when all the regiments like the 18th. 5th, 58e, 71st, 3evolt, 54th, Ody regs, and any good regiments between 2014-2016/17 started to disband and members would join from one group to another. When you put all the really good players into like 2-4 regiments....well you dont have a very competitive community.
2. The Constant Loosing Factor- Try as they might, some regiments just wont be good enough to beat the better regiments, many of these regiments get discouraged from doing 1v1s and groupfights because they either fear loosing members or the members dont want anything to do with the competitive stuff cause they loose all the time. Examples being 27th with Newkirk, 87th with Potus, I could go on but you guys see the point.
3. The Small Stuff- Yes the small shit does add up. If you really look at some of the issues with the major leagues and tourneys you notice alot of bullshit. Like people who shouldnt be in charge of stuff and the actually qualified people are overlooked. Thats just one issue. So many of these type of issues plague the NA side that it makes it hard to have fun.
So do the amount of tourneys kill the NA side? No they do not. I think you need to look at the big picture because these are the main reasons to what is going on in the NA side. (aint it funny how the opposite is happening in EU. I mean think about it....people get tired of winning and they disband regiments cough cough 17e cough cough pieter.)