Posted by Droon

It is horrible that I always have to clean up the verbal mess caused by those embittered, pseudo-selfironic OGs who think they're floating in higher spheres. That was not my intention when I registered for those forums and frankly I'll have to retire my account if there is no light at the end of the tunnel very soon. I will try to put two major points into a very simple scheme.

1)
A method to figure out a 'best' sparrer does not exist.
Reason: The quality of a player is represented by a mixture of performance and result. A spar win cannot be respected if it is achieved in a spar that falls below a certain quality. The quality of a spar depends on factors such as lag, delay, the players' shape, the way they spar and more. Every player has a different interpretation of which factors out of those that I listed are valid. (The same argumentation, expanded by several more factors, obviously counts for the GST too.)

2)
Events of that nature are meaningless in general.
Reason: Events like the GST (and the hypothetical SST) are being introduced to Graal to make players keep track to it. You need to understand that it is not the case, like many seem to believe, that events of that nature are the only thing that keeps Graal worth playing. In reality, it is the opposite. Remind yourselves that Spar is nothing more than a 'PK game', a special situation with - in theory - two players fighting each other under exact same circumstances. The spirit of fighting, the thought of training hard to become the player who is MOST LIKELY to win ANY spar, that is the fuel for every true sparrer. Everybody who cries for events and rewards is a wannabe-analyst who does not understand how valuable the institution 'Spar' is.

That is just the status quo, not even an accusation. I want to help all of you who represent this kind of belief and make you understand that prize-based events like that do not only not make Graal better, they make it worse.

Conclusion:
Spar is the essence of Graal and holy because it is a pure 1vs1 situation. Graal having an official 'best sparrer' would ruin everything because EVERY win in any spar from that point would be referred and compared to that player.