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Unfair adjustment to the World Championship Qualification 2019


IToukaI

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This post is regarding the recent update to the scoring system for the World Championship Qualificaiton Event for Blade & Soul 2019.  


As of 09/08/2019 at 2:21AM GMT+0 the 'scoring system' for the event was updated affecting all previous rankings and scores from the players and their overall team, the official email for this being quoted below.   


" In order to ensure that the best playing teams are the representing their respective regions, we will also be awarding bonus points to players who are placing between 1st and 5th place in the matches they play. This will offset any attempt by players attempting to accumulate mass points through participation rather than performance. The bonus points are awarded will be as follows:     
1st place – 200 bonus points  


2nd place – 25 bonus points  


3rd place – 10 bonus points 


4th place – 5 bonus points  


5th place – 2 bonus points     


Achieving 1st place is an achievement we believe should be richly rewarded.  "  


As stated above, they're creating this change in-order to ensure the best playing teams represent the region. As the scoring system was already announced the 'best teams' have been using the orginial system to attempt to qualify for the World Championship only to find out all their efforts were in vain having the system entirely change completely changing the pace of the event.  


Reading through the 'Official rules' for the event there is no statement anywhere of the new rule set being implemented. Aswell as the Code of Conduct in the rules does not state anything about players trying to achieve the maximum amount of points for the event, as players didn't do anything against the offical rules and code of conduct i don't see a reason why the change is a 'fair outcome' for the participants.

 

"  8.0 Code of Conduct All players are expected to exhibit good sportsmanship and maintain respect for one another and for all event staff and spectators. If NCSOFT, in its sole discretion, determines that any player is behaving inappropriately, not competing in compliance with these Official Rules, or ignoring the instruction or warnings of an NCSOFT representative, such player may be immediately disqualified from the Qualification Event and/or forfeit all potential prizes. Inappropriate behavior includes, but is not limited to, the following: - The use of offensive or derogatory language, images, icons, names, or other prejudicial or bigoted behavior in all channels of communication including, but not limited to, character names and images, Team names and logos, apparel, live streams, chats; - Harassment; - Violence, including threats of violence or encouraging violence; - Collusion; - Cheating of any sorts, including using macros, logging into another person’s account to inflate their in-game rankings (aka “boosting”), win-trading; - Any other known or unknown manner of tampering with gameplay; - Unsportsmanlike behavior, including intentionally delaying or slowing gameplay, intentionally using known bugs;

- Betting or gambling on your own performance, your team’s performance, the results of Qualification Event or any tournaments within the Qualification Event; and - Engaging in any activity or conduct that is considered by NCSOFT to be immoral, disgraceful, or inappropriate. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, NCSOFT may prohibit a player from participating in this Qualification Event or winning a prize, if in its sole discretion, it determines that such player has violated these Official Rules or Code of Conduct; is attempting to undermine the legitimate operation of this Qualification Event (or any portion thereof) by cheating, hacking, deception, or engaging in other unfair  4  practices; intending to annoy, abuse, threaten or harass any other players or NCSOFT representatives; or if player has or had attempted to submit malicious code, .exe files, or any file that contains malicious code.  "

 

This tournament is by no means a 'fair evaluation of the best team for their region' by fault as it's purely based upon which team has the most time to play nothing more, nothing less. Additionally changing the entire scoring system in such an impactful way halfway through the tournament already decides the outcome of the entire thing.  I personally would recommend either 1.The new scoring system to be implemented as of the email date 09/08/2019 not affecting all previous scores to ensure a 'fair' outcome. 2. Alternatively the scoring system that has been added to be completely removed.


Even for me as one of the players of the team that is first place. It feels like an unfair move. im speaking on behalf of most EU teams and also most NA teams.

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They changed the rules in the middle of qualification, we didn't sign up for this rule, we signed up for other rules.

It is the same as changing the rules in a soccer match at half time, goals don't count anymore but whoever had the longest ball control wins, pure bullshit.

The change of winning is actually good, we used to make kills and as soon as we found out people were hiding we suicide for better points. We got rank 1 team like this, we are currently r3 because of the change, they changed our previous points according to the new system which is again bullshit, if you implement new rules don't change the points that was received on the old rules.

I have a question though, is this even legal? We signed up for something with specific rules and they changed something now we didn't sign up for.

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