First victor of Nullscapes, spookkd has given his thoughts about why pre practicing should be a taboo
Check out his video on the matter but here are his arguments kind of summarised.
- After a level gets verified, there is naturally a big race for the title of first victor, whose winner will receive a lot of attention and praise. Now imagine you’re in said race, trying to beat an insanely hard level before everyone else. You give it your best shot and think you might have a chance, only for someone to make insane progress on the level which seemed completely impossible, due to pre practice.
Imagine you’re in a race, you trained a lot for this. You get ready, eagerly awaiting the start. You look up and right beside you, someone starts sprinting, long before the start.
But no one cares. Not the referee, not the viewers. No one.
The race officially starts and you make it about half way before the person who started early arrives at the end. How is that fair? How does this make sense?
Well it doesn’t.
- Let’s say that you are someone like doggie and you have just verified an impossibly hard level. It was so hard in fact that it took you until your second streaming moth to get the level in 2 runs (that actually was the case for Grief). Excitedly, you go onto youtube and want to see how other people are doing at your level, only to see that 3 people already have the level in 2 runs after 4 days of playing. That must feel bad doesn’t it?
And even if they admit to pre practice, it will still give out the impression that the level might not be all that hard as it actually is. I have seen a lot of people talking about how Grief might actually not be top 1 (way more than I ever expected to see).
What are your thoughts on this. Please watch spookkd’s actual video on this (it’s very good).
Also please don’t shoot the messenger