[Won by anything big] DzNutsKup - Dz's First Squidboards Tournament!

[OnePotWonder]

If anything though it could be more fun if we were to just outright ban Tacticooler. I know a lot of comps felt like they needed a cooler weapon and it's a bit more awkward at this level where people aren't always playing top tier weapons. At least one person will have to be put off of their favorite weapon just to fill in a comp building checkbox that might not even feel as impactful as it is. I haven't gotten too many direct complaints about this but this much is still an interesting idea. I'll keep it in mind for next time.

This is a very good idea for a tournament restriction, especially within the context of Squidboards. For me personally our team felt rather awkward in that we had to constantly have either Neo on Heavy Edit or Neon on Tri Nouveau. Cooler not being necessary to keep up with the competition would give our comp a lot more freedom.

 

[SecretAgentNeo]

Sorry, I meant to respond to this earlier.

I would be willing to try something like this on paper but in practice I don't think this specific rule would end up doing much. The main comps for the top four teams had two Tri Nouveaus, vanilla Dapple, and the last one went coolerless. I think there were one, maaaaybe two N-ZAP players in this entire tournament (Genesis Wave has had days with a few different Tacticooler weapons and I don't know what comp they ran).

If anything though it could be more fun if we were to just outright ban Tacticooler. I know a lot of comps felt like they needed a cooler weapon and it's a bit more awkward at this level where people aren't always playing top tier weapons. At least one person will have to be put off of their favorite weapon just to fill in a comp building checkbox that might not even feel as impactful as it is. I haven't gotten too many direct complaints about this but this much is still an interesting idea. I'll keep it in mind for next time.

I would be willing to hear out a total cooler ban. Although I've been receptive in the past re. Cooler effectively being a patch over more severe issues the game has, so I'm not entirely willing to actively advocate for that.