EDIT: strawpoll website seems to be down atm, I can remake these later if it doesnt get fixed
Following up what I said before I think we should just have a bunch of polls regarding the format instead of arguing.
Already existing ones:
1)
https://www.strawpoll.me/19120487 length of the event
2)
https://www.strawpoll.me/19121580 when it should start
Additional ones:
3)
https://www.strawpoll.me/19125415 map release format (keeping bg5 format or going back to bg4 and earlier or maybe something completely new)
4)
https://www.strawpoll.me/19125427 prizepool distribution
5)
https://www.strawpoll.me/19125438 separating soldier trickjumping from demo trickjumping
6)
https://www.strawpoll.me/19125446 allowing gimmicks for trickjumping (changing weapon properties, airaccel etc)
7)
https://www.strawpoll.me/19125458 allowing/disallowing or penalizing old trickjumps
If you want to read me going more in-depth as to why i think these polls are important you can read this wall of text:
1 and 2) The issues with the starting date and length of the event are obvious enough, christmas is a fairly bad starting date for anyone with a life (people visiting or spending time with family etc).
3) Releasing all maps at once puts people who want to seriously compete on all of them and especially as both classes at a disadvantage. Someone could pick one map and grind only that one map as opposed to trying out all of them and they would obviously perform on that map better than someone who plays all of the maps. No idea why this was even changed for bg5 as it always followed the system of 2 maps per week in the past and everyone was fine with it. And as mentioned by superchuck in this thread everyone only grinded the newly released map anyway, so why not make it have a fair system from the start?
4) I see an issue with rewarding FIRST place in trickjumping MORE than SECOND place in SPEEDRUNNING. The reason why I find trickjumping way less impressive IN THIS SPECIFIC FORMAT is time constraints. Trickjumping has practically no time limit to hit your jump if you accept old trickjumps but even if you were to limit it to only 4-5 weeks during the event its still more than having 1-2 weeks to speedrun a stage. In addition to this most trickjumps take 10 to 20 seconds while map runs take way longer so you would get less attempts to get a good run than to hit a good trickjump. On top of all this if you look at trickjumps that won bg5 and bg4 they were really uncreative and poorly judged which is obviously my opinion but JUDGING is SUBJECTIVE regardless while SPEEDRUNNING is NOT. Better jump can lose if people dont vote for it, better run cant lose because its the fastest.
5) NOT separating soldier trickjumps from demo trickjumps is just dumb, you cant compare them at all. But this does bring up an issue with trickjumps where you use soldier weapons on demo and vice versa (exile won 3rd place with this which was fairly undeserved). Which leads into my next point.
6) Defining the rules for trickjumping is important. Back when first few beginnings took place people didnt know about many gimmicky things (or they didnt exist) so these issues didnt take place. To my knowledge having soldier weapons on demo was the only gimmick that took place in beginnings but there were trickjumps in movies that used lower gravity/higher airaccel or just different weapon properties. It does give more options for people to be creative with them but also not everyone would want to use gimmicky stuff for their jumps.
7) As for penalizing old trickjumps I think it makes the most sense as I really dont see why mireal's 2 YEARS OLD jump should win FIRST PLACE in CURRENT YEAR'S TOURNAMENT which gives him more prize money than someone getting 2nd place on s1/s2/s3. I think it makes the community look bad that you have to use old jumps for a tournament that takes place NOW. Penalizing them also gets around the issue of simply not having enough (good) trickjumps but thats the issue of the gamemode itself in the first place (which is why I also think it doesnt deserve such big prizepool if its less popular than speedrunning). If 1st place trickjump that is new is less impressive than 2nd place trickjumps that is old I think its fine as you still feature all of them in the video, just distribute the prizes differently. I dont know what the exact penalty for points should be, but something like 2 points (if 10 is max) sounds reasonable.
Again I encourage people to check out my old bg6 rant for more stuff that could be improved in the future here:
https://pastebin.com/qijVaNKV