in no way am i trying to "appear better than everyone" on here lol.

how are you calling this healthy discussion when it has been nothing but shade thrown back in forth between me, kouji, thallen, david, winter, blaze, sarah, etc. lol go back and read.

the only "healthy discussion" on this entire page is thallen saying he's interested in a system that rewards guilds for sticking together or something.

my contribution to the actual thread (finally): GST winners should be able to upload their own hats as it is a high skill-level competition between sparrers that only happens every 3 months, a time period where 10+ guilds give out 25 hats to their members for reaching 1,000 hours. if a team wants to take advantage of this, sell their abandoned hat to the public so the gfx was not a waste of someone's time.

would also like to add that i have finally read through the first page (no others until page 7 so i am sorry if i am mentioning something that has already been said) and the belt given to winners is not much of a prize. you only have it for those 3 months and nobody really uses it because raising it only attracts negative attention and makes people call you cocky. the gst hat is pretty much the only prize currently in all of sparring, players should be able to make it look the way they want it to.  

Posted by Thallen

cringing @ the notion that Zeross should be credited for Mother's success

probably played for a total of 10 hours while Dante, Clops, Abel, Hercules were putting in work the whole time

u forgot red leo.  

Posted by Thallen

cringing @ the notion that Zeross should be credited for Mother's success

not credited for their success, credited for their demise.

Posted by Comyt

and for "super known sparrers": that sage gst had yurhomi, tae, and blake. these are 3 of my top 11 sparrers ever lol. other members were jiggy, papyrus, tabby, and lucifer.

A subjective statement with a lil bias on the side, nice. I remember blake from back in the day and yurhomi when he was coming up and they have never been super known. They were good, but I don't know about top 11 all-time. Tae I don't know, so can't speak on him.

Posted by Kuz

Damn atleast now everyone's true opinions on people are coming out lmfao.

That's how it supposed to be.  

My answer is still no to uploading gst hats. The spam killed all of the real responses of other players. It seems like you want a similar hat system as towering. I don't think GST hats should be uploaded by players because no one is competing to get a hat. The hats themselves are just bonuses to winning the gst so why should that idea get implemented, and become unnoticeable like 1K towering hats? I actually like how everyone can recognize who won what GST hat, rather than people barely recognizing which towering guild uploaded which hat.  

Posted by LiA

I actually like how everyone can recognize who won what GST hat, rather than people barely recognizing which towering guild uploaded which hat.

That's a pretty good point, actually. I do like that everyone is competing for a common hat but that doesn't change the fact that the hat itself should be way nicer than it has been in the past couple GSTs. Pretty sure I've said this on here: people who actually care about the hat (because they've entered GST repeatedly and have a high chance of winning) should have some creative input into what the hat should look like.

Not going to reply to any posts that try to incite some flame war like the other thread that I made a few months ago, just stating my opinion.  

Posted by LiA

I actually like how everyone can recognize who won what GST hat, rather than people barely recognizing which towering guild uploaded which hat.

With the third place hats now, I feel like GST hats are pretty saturated. Every 3 months, 6 guilds get GST hats. I'd probably say anywhere between 6-12 guilds reach 1k every 3 months, but that's a complete guess. The hat means nothing to me personally as long as the quality of competition and guild-centric gameplay is improved. If GST rewards were entirely removed and something else was introduced that made guilds more meaningful and involved, I'd see that as a plus.

Anyway, that's not what's going to happen. What's going to happen is that guilds will be more empowered to get the things that they actually want when they achieve or do something, rather than having some hat that they don't even like forced upon them.  

lol nothing is "forced upon them," no one is saying they HAVE TO take the hat.  

bro the hat is definitely forced upon you i decline it every time i place lol