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@MRIGOTBASS @ded @mkholic , just to end this discussion of what tournaments in USA allow or doesn't allow. Can't say anything about other games, but specifically Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 had more tournaments in Russian Community than in any other places in the world in recent years. I don't recall seeing EVO UMK3 tournament in past 2 years for example while we had more than 10 tournaments, every tournament almost having prize money of almost 1000$ and some even surpassing it 2x. Just 3 days ago our last tournament had about 780$ of total prize. Maybe its not a lot but for a game that doesn't have official worldwide tournaments and is 27 years old it is definitely very good. The region is definitely more active region for UMK than any other place in the world when it comes to competitive showmatches and tournaments.And we as a community have decided to play this way and these rules are comfortable for us. Of course fairness is still the main thing to keep intact in tournaments but theories aside, this community has experiences of what is what in tournament and all participants in tournaments of UMK here can say that no one constantly wins a tournament just because he has 1+ or 2+ more multiple inputs for single action. What matters in the end of level of skill and how one can demonstrate his maximum skill. You will not get total fairness 100% simply due to players having different connection delays, some players having better devices, some playing on Pad, some playing with Hitbox, some having shitty monitor with delay while some having good monitor with more ping. There are just so many more factors that matters more than multiple inputs in game but it is what it is. Each player uses layout comfortable for them. Question comes down to if my opponent also has the will to learn how to maximise his game purely with skill, train fingers to use more moves at the same time? Just a quick example, there is a player on fighcade from Brasil named Weeknd( Alarik) he plays at a quite high level and is using Joystick or Playstation controller basically. Now surely anyone can agree that UMK has physical advantages played on Keyboard than Joystick simply due to having better and faster access to some complex combos and inputs. But Alarik plays good enough with his joystick that he can even with some high level players with Keyboards and etc. So really what matters in this game mainly is mindgame, reflexes, mixups, combos and matchups. You can have 10+ UP button but you wont win a high level Kabal player that has1 Up button with Sheeva. So these are what matters the most and not the amount of doubles player uses to comfortably show what he is capable of. Rest of it is what kind of layout is the most comfortable for you to put out there your maximum capacity. Cheers everyone
