Ecodus
I ain't got time to bleed.
Interesting points, I hope I'm not intruding but,OK let's make things simpler and see how things will work out in practicality instead of all this theory fighting:
MKX will be released in April. The two QA's are GGA 16 Bit and GGA Pimpimjim. Those are the two guys who by then would have been working on the game for a year or so. These guys live in Chicago. There will be no majors in Chicago during that time (is there a replacement for UFGT? If there is, that's a month into the game's life span anyway). Since these guys will not be going to East Coast majors for well-documented reasons, you have nothing to worry about. By the time CEO rolls along, that would be two months into the game's life, which is pretty reasonable for them to travel and participate. If you can't level up in two months, then you're not losing because of the testers. You're just not that good (that's a general "you" here. I'm not addressing anyone in particular).
As far as other testers, the ones who are flown in for a week or so, I would say they should probably sit out for the first couple of weeks into the game's life span. So for instance, testers who happen to live on the East Coast would participate in ECT, but not Civil War. There, problem solved.
@Mr Aquaman Does that sound fair? If so, let's start pushing this idea.
The replacement for UFGT is Combo Breaker I think.
I'd like to touch on the east coast tournaments thing, because I have a couple of questions I'd like you to Konsider (sorry that was cheesy).
Are 16 bit and PPJ the only QA guys? Or just the ones that the community knows?
Yes there is documented reasons why GGA most likely won't participate in East Coast tournies, but those points shouldn't come into play when we are talking about testers. Because, what if things change? And PPJ isn't banned from those tournaments.
If a decision needs to be made about testers playing in tournaments within the first month (or whatever the pre determined length of time they shouldn't be playing) it should be a generalized. No majors for X amount of time for anyone who tested the game beyond the week long beta stuff.
The week long guys should go to every event imo.
That being said, as an international player who needs to fork out a pretty penny to go to these events, if I was planning on going to a major within the first month of the game's life and 16bit and PPJ and whoever else tested the game was going, it wouldn't stop me from attending. And my goal when going to these events is to compete, not just go and have the experience.