Post by Joe Summers on Mar 28, 2005 20:22:51 GMT -5
One thing that you’ll possibly hear a lot of in your time in the efed world is that quality is > quantity. Now, I’m not here to tell you that it isn’t true, because it kind of is. Things aren’t quite as simple as that though, as there can be situations when things differ. Allow me to explain..
Let’s say that you typed up one godly RP, and your opponent typed up a few weak ones. Now, in this situation, you would win, because your one RP was a lot better than any of the ones that they did, and even possibly better than all of them put together.
If you typed up one above average RP (about 7/10), and you’re opponent managed to type up three of them (also 7/10), the judging would most likely result in the favor of the person who typed the three. This is also a simple situation, since the person with the three RPs managed to put up triple the amount you did, all of them around the same quality as yours.
The problem with the quality > quantity logic comes into play in certain situations. Let’s say that the person you are facing managed to get up one excellent RP. Now, you manage to get up around 3-4 really good RPs, though none of them match up the quality of the one RP. Following the quality > quantity logic, the person with the one RP would win, since their RP was better than both of yours. However, if you think about it, you would deserve to win based off of the fact that you were consistently good during the week, whereas they managed one good RP. In that situation, even if the person you are facing had the better quality RP, it is possible to win due to the fact that you were consistently good the entire week compared to really good on one day. The judging in this case would depend on the personal opinion of the judges, not in the statement that quality > quantity.
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The point of this post is to explain to newer people how matches are judged, and to show them that even though they may hear that quality is > quantity, that there can be situations where that doesn’t come into play. I also wanted to try and give people a decent example of what kind of situations that quality would win and where quantity would win.
Let’s say that you typed up one godly RP, and your opponent typed up a few weak ones. Now, in this situation, you would win, because your one RP was a lot better than any of the ones that they did, and even possibly better than all of them put together.
If you typed up one above average RP (about 7/10), and you’re opponent managed to type up three of them (also 7/10), the judging would most likely result in the favor of the person who typed the three. This is also a simple situation, since the person with the three RPs managed to put up triple the amount you did, all of them around the same quality as yours.
The problem with the quality > quantity logic comes into play in certain situations. Let’s say that the person you are facing managed to get up one excellent RP. Now, you manage to get up around 3-4 really good RPs, though none of them match up the quality of the one RP. Following the quality > quantity logic, the person with the one RP would win, since their RP was better than both of yours. However, if you think about it, you would deserve to win based off of the fact that you were consistently good during the week, whereas they managed one good RP. In that situation, even if the person you are facing had the better quality RP, it is possible to win due to the fact that you were consistently good the entire week compared to really good on one day. The judging in this case would depend on the personal opinion of the judges, not in the statement that quality > quantity.
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The point of this post is to explain to newer people how matches are judged, and to show them that even though they may hear that quality is > quantity, that there can be situations where that doesn’t come into play. I also wanted to try and give people a decent example of what kind of situations that quality would win and where quantity would win.