I watched the recording of Komito's stream last night and, as mentioned on the stream, it's a shame the streamer/viewers can't see what weapons are collected in T17 (and other shopping-style schemes).

The streams would be far more interesting if the streamers could talk about what the players got.

So I have a proposal for this cup, for games that are streamed: players privately message their weapon pickups to the streamer (or another commentator on the stream).

In a 1v1 that would be too much effort of course, but in a 2v2 it would be easy, as there would be plenty of time (3 other turns) for any given player to communicate with the streamer. In turn the streamer could adapt their stream to show inventories on-screen (i'm given to understand some streamers already do this for "what's been used" in other schemes)

I don't know how well this would work in practice or whether it really would improve the stream/viewer experience enough to be worth it, but perhaps we could give it a try by streaming one of the early rounds?

Damn, sorry for missing my games :/ For some reason it was incredibly difficult to be online at the same time as anyone else...

For what it's worth I would probably have lost all my games anyway, so the outcome is surely unchanged

Oh! I didn't realise there was a whole debate going on. I've just caught up on the thread.

I'm kinda disappointed I got removed from the cup but if Sibasa wanted to leave then that's understandable, since we were on the same team. Nevertheless if another dropout happens and you need a replacement, I'm happy to jump back in

I suppose we should probably have questioned the scheme as soon as we noticed the weapons were carried over. That just seemed silly for a moleshopper, but I assumed it was deliberate. Trouble is, you can't pause the game, or save it, and then go and check... so as soon as round 2 started we kinda had to carry on and assume it was correct. To be honest I kinda have to give Lupastic credit for carrying on - he must have known we had a huge weapon advantage and if I were in his position I think I would have kicked up a stink!

I see a lot of blame is being thrown around but I don't think it's really that big a deal. It makes sense to me that Lupastic changed the scheme setting to bo3, but he should have checked the stockpiling option beforehand (and then asked the host to clarify). But also, Zorro should have uploaded a scheme with no stockpiling, and used that for the cup. It's fine, it's not a big deal, there doesn't need to be a fight over who's to blame.

For what it's worth I would have been happy to play from 1:0, that seems the fairest way to proceed (since that first round was 'legit').

Anyway give me a shout if another space comes available (or if another moleshop cup happens!)

Enjoyed the ending to this one what a twist!

Wow, this cup was started in 2018. Better late than never I guess.

Hype! Though I'm still in favour of getting rid of the Select Worm entirely...

Ditto. But if there's only one this time then at least it's trending in the right direction