Originally posted by King Kandy
What I really like is that Blair kept using the Plasma vortex match after match, only to have it rejected each time by the judges. I think it took until the fourth match or so that they got the majority to believe it.
Blah, I hated that tourney.
but judges are a harsh mistress. I mentioned Minion Prime. Knowing I'd make the playoffs after the round robin, I had a list of all judges and how they felt about it. The number who were confident in it would determine whether or not I would use it in the playoffs. I had a healthy majority, so I went with it instead of scrapping it and trying a completely different plan. Then after a LOT of judge no-shows or dropouts, I got two judges mid-match (one brand new one who was never used in the round robin) who had never seen Minion in my matches. Needless to say, it went over badly. It was so demoralizing laying the groundwork for it for weeks, then knowing it would fail with the judge turnover. There were literally posts in my earlier matches that were intended solely to win judges over for the playoffs, and had nothing to do with the match it was in. It was no one's fault that it ended how it did, but was demoralizing.