Oh hey Uwik! Great job compiling everything. That's a looooong list.
However, I'd say there are several problems with it.
First of all, While F230 was released nearly two years ago now, F230CF/GCF was really only introduced into the tournament scene about 1 year ago, so the first 9-10 months of tournament results (which is where I assume the lack of F230 is found) really shouldn't be included if you ask me.
Second, that was when it was introduced into the NC meta, which was where it first made an impact. For other tournament regions, Like Maryland and/or CT, it happened much later, so that increases the number of tournaments where F230 either wasn't present or wasn't used simply because it hadn't been introduced into the meta.
Third, there are availability issues. As DrPepsidew said, the part is very, very expensive. 50 bucks for a piece of plastic is more than a lot of people can/are willing to pay. Only certain members have it in some areas, and as a result, although F230 does dominate, it doesn't show up in large numbers in the winning combinations because people don't own it.
Fourth, and this is arguably the biggest problem, you have no idea how many times each of those F230 combinations were used. From extensive experience, I can tell you that when an F230 combo shows up, it's usually spammed. It's a safe bet to make that any F230 combination you see posted was used at least 4 times during an event, and that's the honest truth. Plenty of players can testify to that. Also, oftentimes non-F230 combinations, sine they're not nearly as versatile, are only used once or twice. That said, the number of matches F230 was used in is probably much, much higher than 14%.
Fifth, you are still missing 33 of the 75 Zero-G tournaments recorded. That's
44%. We're missing nearly half of the data here. Furthermore, I'm assuming several of those were Maryland tournaments, considering the period of time where they posted no winning combinations for whatever reasons. Maryland is arguably the
biggest F230 problem spot in the world. I can't be sure of this, But I would like to know, if you have the information, how many of those tournaments were played in Maryland. If any of them were, you're likely missing several tournaments where F230 was used very, very frequently.
That said, I appreciate the work it must've taken to compile that list, but I honestly think it's pretty much totally unreliable.
If you counted the
number of matches between players who
owned an Orange TAKARA TOMY F230 after
July of 2013 in which F230 was used, I guarantee you you would get at
least 50%, bare minimum. I would estimate more like 75%.
I realize gathering that information is impossible, but that's what we would need to really represent the frequency with which F230 is used.
Uwik Wrote:Food for thought: If F230 CF/GCF is broken enough to obliterate other combinations it faces, why do the users of F230 CF/GCF still use other non F230 CF/GCF combinations throughout the event? 2 combos (left/right) F230 CF/GCF should have been enough to win events, no?
Because many, many players (I'd say the majority) who own F230 know how overpowered it is, and choose to use it sparingly (this happens extremely frequently in NC and VA) to either preserve the meta or to attempt to make the tournament more interesting by avoiding F230 matches, which I have witnessed firsthand extremely frequently (I'd say this happens with most players in NC), and which presents another huge, huge problem for the statistical evidence we have here.
And, just for the record, there have been tournaments where that's happened. Just ask Dark. Literally nothing but F230 for the entire event. When it is spammed, it does obliterate the other combinations it faces, and that's why so many people make pacts not to use it in events and avoid F230 matches whenever they can; because it's a big, very real problem, and some players decide to take it into their own hands.
