(Feb. 18, 2019  3:49 AM)The Supreme One Wrote: Episode 6 is now up! We were lucky enough to chat with three bladers from Southeast Asia - KingSpin from Singapore, krandak100 from Malaysia, and Blader Emu from the Philippines. Definitely one of our most interesting episodes so far!

We're currently working on getting the podcast on Spotify, and since a few people have requested uploads to Youtube I might try that out too! We're also in dire need of a better logo, so if anyone here is into graphic design, please hit me up haha

(Feb. 18, 2019  10:53 AM)LazerBeamz Wrote:

(Feb. 18, 2019  3:49 AM)The Supreme One Wrote: Episode 6 is now up! We were lucky enough to chat with three bladers from Southeast Asia - KingSpin from Singapore, krandak100 from Malaysia, and Blader Emu from the Philippines. Definitely one of our most interesting episodes so far!

We're currently working on getting the podcast on Spotify, and since a few people have requested uploads to Youtube I might try that out too! We're also in dire need of a better logo, so if anyone here is into graphic design, please hit me up haha

Hey @[The Supreme One] and @[Wombat] this sounds dope! Happy to make a logo for you guys if you're interested!

(Feb. 18, 2019  5:55 PM)lilphilyb Wrote: Please dont ban bearing its the only way i can win!!!

(Feb. 19, 2019  5:43 PM)yukenta Wrote: This is my first time listening to this podcast and I really enjoyed it a lot! I love hearing about the different Beyblade communities around the world and the different experiences that people have within them! I'm looking forward to listening to the previous episodes that I missed, especially the one with Jojo as a guest!

(Feb. 19, 2019  6:49 PM)The Supreme One Wrote:

(Feb. 19, 2019  5:43 PM)yukenta Wrote: This is my first time listening to this podcast and I really enjoyed it a lot! I love hearing about the different Beyblade communities around the world and the different experiences that people have within them! I'm looking forward to listening to the previous episodes that I missed, especially the one with Jojo as a guest!

Glad to hear that you enjoyed it! This episode was one of my favorites to record We're also on Spotify now, and plan to post the episodes on Youtube before Episode 7 is recorded!

(Mar. 26, 2019  4:31 AM)DeceasedCrab Wrote: Adding hurdles for new players to jump through is not conducive to growing a thriving community.

The community doesn't need additional gatekeeping designed to keep newer players from doing well in tournaments, that would be received badly by those players.

(Mar. 26, 2019  4:31 AM)DeceasedCrab Wrote: Poker's the same way, sometimes you can make good decisions, the best decisions, and still lose, because your opponent made a bad decision, but they won anyway.

(Mar. 26, 2019  4:31 AM)DeceasedCrab Wrote: It is not correct to assume that years of experience automatically entitles you to beat newer players with less information about their combos; sometimes they're going to beat you anyway. That's just the nature of the game, there are no certainties once the beys leave the launchers, there is no longer any control.

(Mar. 26, 2019  4:31 AM)DeceasedCrab Wrote: "[Choose 3 beys, select one each round] format idea weeds out random kid phenomenon"

Adding hurdles for new players to jump through is not conducive to growing a thriving community.

The community doesn't need additional gatekeeping designed to keep newer players from doing well in tournaments, that would be received badly by those players. Unpredictability is a valid strategy, and a real factor in the game; newer players can be unpredictable because they're new. Other players can be unpredictable as a valid strategy, keeping the opponents guessing so that they pick a bey yours is strong again. It can be frustrating, sure. Poker's the same way, sometimes you can make good decisions, the best decisions, and still lose, because your opponent made a bad decision, but they won anyway. It is not correct to assume that years of experience automatically entitles you to beat newer players with less information about their combos; sometimes they're going to beat you anyway. That's just the nature of the game, there are no certainties once the beys leave the launchers, there is no longer any control.

I think the Japanese deck format is interesting and would be a lot of fun in club format, but I think the motivations for it discussed during episode 7 were perhaps a bit mean spirited.

(Mar. 26, 2019  5:49 AM)The Supreme One Wrote:

(Mar. 26, 2019  4:31 AM)DeceasedCrab Wrote: I think the motivations for it discussed during episode 7 were perhaps a bit mean spirited.

I'm also not sure I understand what you mean when you say that you think the motivations for discussing the Japanese deck format were mean-spirited.

(Mar. 26, 2019  7:37 PM)DeceasedCrab Wrote:

(Mar. 26, 2019  5:49 AM)The Supreme One Wrote: I'm also not sure I understand what you mean when you say that you think the motivations for discussing the Japanese deck format were mean-spirited.

That's not what I said, as seen above. I said some of the motivations in favor of it, for it, were mean spirited. Discussing the format is fine, and in some cases it's a good or interesting idea. But supporting it to solve something called "random kid problem" (which I disagree is a problem at all) is mean spirited.

If you want discussions about the podcast to kept out of the podcast thread, then close the podcast thread, and reopen it only to announce new episodes, and then close it again. Otherwise, you should expect discussions about the podcast content within its thread.