Originally posted by Shiny NinetalesAbout the collab itself, I'm not a big fan of making a collab just with the best entries (why only certain users are deserved to have them levels on the collab while others don't? It's unfair as fuck)
Because, as literally everyone we've gotten a hold of who played all of the entries this year will tell you, the majority of the levels really just aren't worth playing at all. I mean, we literally had plans for VLDCX that involved being able to skip a large part of the game and still get to the post-game, just because of how much of a boring trudge it would be. A best-of would simply be a far more polished, more enjoyable product.
And I mean, asking why only "certain users" (that should be "certain levels") get to be in the collab is like asking why only the top 3 people get trophies in literally every contest; because they're good and they earned it and are worth putting effort into showing off.
And now you might ask, so why is this in the cards but the full collab isn't? That's because this is something we can actually achieve and finish before 2021, if at all.
Why "if at all"? Because Vitor has kind of screwed everyone over on that. He put extremely loose restrictions on everything resource-wise in the contest from the get-go because he was planning to use the dual ROM system, and then promptly left the entire thing to die.
Originally posted by Shiny NinetalesVery dissapointed. In my opinion you are giving Vitor a fault that he doesn't deserve too much. I mean, yes, he's probably the only one that actually know how the 180+ entries was going to be managed to fit in one rom and all that stuff, but he resigned the enough time ago to make the new leader think more about how that was going to be handled after his resignation (because at this point is well known by all of us that things were going "behind scenes" and so)
When he left the staff team, he didn't do the sensible thing and like, settle all that stuff beforehand, he literally just went awol on every single project the site was in the process of handling and left the rest of us to figure it out.
So we picked it up and focused on getting a new ASM leader and keep an eye on judging going smoothly. Medic volunteered to lead the ASM part and actually knew how the dual ROM system works, so hooray, but he got swamped with school work and wasn't motivated to spend his free time working on this so he quit that as well.
Shortly after, Vitor came back and we let him take over the ASM again because hey, even though he's literally left us in the dust on more than just VLDCX on a whim, letting him do it wasn't an issue because nobody else knew how to! And as he always did, he assured us that yes, 100% everything will go fine without actually telling us any of his plans, without being transparent about anything at all and almost instantly falling back into his routine of not giving anyone anything to go off of other than "I'll make it happen".
And then a few weeks/months after he fucked off again, leaving us with no info once more (and not even a heads up that he is indeed leaving), which leads us to where we are now.
So yeah, if you want to find someone to blame for us not knowing anything about this, it's literally Vitor still.
He set everything up to only work in the dual ROM system by giving people preposterous amounts of resources to work with, didn't bother to share any of his plans with anyone, left it all in the dust without anyone knowing what he was actually planning all along and finally coming back only to sit there giving us promises about how everything will work out fine only to leave once again.
Throughout the time he was leading VLDCX, he did not talk to anyone about his plans until after he announced them. Staff as well as judges and other helpers found out about every important piece of information after he posted it publicly, where it was tough to just go "but wait, this isn't ideal" because it was already out there. Not that he ever listened to that anyway.
Originally posted by Shiny NinetalesSo, posting this latest update when there was supposed to left arround 20 days to the supposed deadline of the collab is a bit out of place. Yeah, Vitor has part of the fault, but the current leading team has to recognize that this is a failure of everyone who is and was involved on it.
I don't think you understand that we simply don't have the human resources on this site to make this collab a thing the way Vitor laid it out to be without Vitor actually pulling through with it.
VLDCX already swallowed up, I wanna say... 3 other big collabs this year? Just because we can't handle more than the small amount of people we are can handle, and knowing that we wouldn't be able to host x contest while simultaneously compiling the VLDCX collab simply forced us not to host them just by being there, because there was always a chance that they would fall into the same timeslot (and VLDCX would've eaten up a BIG timeslot).
So basically, unless you don't want contests for a year and can find someone who will program all of our ASM needs for the collab in a timely manner as Vitor promised he would more than five dozen times before disappearing twice, you have absolutely no place to be disappointed in anyone whose name doesn't start with V.
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