[quote=@MelonHead]
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I think there is an issue here, in that this tournament is an 'official ranked tournament' and the only one running at the time, any issues significantly effects the Arena leaderboards. If we allow GM's complete autonomy with no accountability they could do irreperable damage to the leaderboards for everyone in the Arena community by creating an unbalanced situation which gives the winner a large amount of points. This isn't like any other RP where we can all just throw up our hands and wander off, we all have a vested interested in the outcome of this tournament, and want it to be fair.


Innue: I can't help but feel that a character should be evaluated outside of the context of a specific map, I'm sure that the character could possibly be less overpowered for the competitors here in a ten foot by ten foot dome where flying is not an option, and the character is less likely to be able to prepare the death ball and other abilities, but that isn't a very likely scenario. In a tournament especially every character should be roughly balanced no matter what arena comes up, which is why its quite common to randomize the arena from a big compendium of arenas, as the judge you shouldn't really have to be placing environmental advantages in just to offset one characters powers. That suggests the issue is with the character. 

At least, that's my opinion.
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I will consider it tomorrow. As stated earlier, I am going out tonight and will not be able to address these matters before then.