pure surge
The current method of attending timed events hosted by certain people through Discord is slow, impractical and does not account for people who cannot play at certain times.
Efforts to cater for those in different timezones have already been made by appointing examiners from different regions, but some of these examiners may slack and not host events frequent enough.
There is no stated schedule for events, meaning that people can only wait for an event, if it even gets hosted at all.
Despite these and the low frequency of events, the invitation to an event only lasts for an extremely short time such that only a small amount of people get to join at one time.
The current rankup events also risk spectators interfering with duels.
Therefore, i suggest implementing the already existing “Ranked 1v1” system into this.
This way, people can rank up at anytime they want. All they have to do is log on and queue for a duel with someone of the same rank (E.g. Mizu against Mizu). After they win a certain number of games, they will rank up.
Using this method, players can rank up independently without the presence of an examiner
However, the absence of examiners supervising the duels will leave opportunities for exploiters to ruin games as examiners are not present to stop them.
The new method will have flaws but it will still be more practical than the current method of joining through Discord.
For the issues of inf combos: All breathings and bdas should be roughly balanced if the devs are good
Runners: Make a shrinking border or/and a time limit
and of course this only applies to lower ranks
tldr: Make examiners lose their jobs. because why not.
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