Originally Posted by
JavelinJoe
You're giving me the esports argument, I've heard it a million times because my best friends are 2 NA PUBG tier 1 pros and I've spoken to people in that space about it all the time. Look Orange, whatever way you spin this, you're wrong here. You cannot consider ANYTHING competitive unless you start at the same point, or are measured against the same ruler, that's just a fact. Your argument about needing to have the same PC's with addons/spec isn't true, its not any different to Olympic sprinters using different brands of running shoes, or as you might see in my name (I used to throw the javelin for GB) Javelin throwers owning their own Javelins of which there are a lot of brands, they fly different, they have different styles, all are legal.
If a guildy has such a bad PC that its causing them issues playing, then its the guilds job to replace them until they get a better spec pc.
If I said to you, if you are familiar with battle royale/PUBG, that NA teams can jump out of the plane 10 minutes before EU teams, and loot up, before playing the game, you'd say that's outrageous and ridiculous, and its not remotely fair or competitive as they simply don't start on a level footing, its no different with the world first. You cannot consider it fair in good conscience. PUBG pros compete regularly with their own PC specs, their own mice and keyboards, headphones and AMP's. But they play the same game on the same footing, and that's a competition.
In a perfect world, yes, all the players would be shipped out to a location, given 30 PC's, deprived of access to the internet/twitch with exception of access to world of warcraft servers, and set loose, with the public able to watch all teams streams, they would all start at the same time, on the same rigs, and nobody would be able to learn tactics from each other, and we could see the winner, but that isn't going to happen nor will a worldwide release be likely to happen, so for now the best solution is to fix up the criteria for world first, and by any measure the logical solution here is to judge them on how long it took them from their local release to their kill.