Hi everyone,

There have been requests from multiple runners to address the use of custom capsules in the Tournament categories.

Currently, there is a poll running in the discord linked on the leaderboards under the "DB-General" channel asking for feedback on what runners would prefer for the category.

The options are:

• Allow customization as part of the default rules of the categories, and keep all runs together under the same category whether they used customized capsules or not.

• Create a separated subcategory variable for Capsule use, which would split the category down further into "Default" and "Custom" subcategory variables. The argument for this is that the use of capsules drastically changes strategy in runs, especially in the categories of Tournament that don't allow out of bounds. Capsule equips will have to be shown before or after a run for verification in this case, but runs verified before this rule implementation would remain verified.

If you would like to give feedback on what you would prefer, please comment here or join the discord and vote in the poll/discuss in the sparking-zero channel.

Also, if you performed any runs in the Tournament Category with capsules equipped, please let us know here. If the categories are separated, we will have to move the runs using capsules to the "Capsule" subcategory. We will manually look through all of the runs for any runs that did use capsules, but it would save time that could be used for verifying new runs if we were told ahead of time that you used them.

I think it wouldn’t hurt to have two categories, at least for those that want to focus on specifically winning with the character vs. using the best combination of capsules. I also think it should be required to show what capsules were used for the run.

If the two were to be one category, then there should be something when the run is uploaded to say “Capsules” or “No Capsules” that the runner selected. Showing the capsule rule should still apply. At least that is my thoughts.

I'd split the two categories

Thank you guys for your input.

Tournament run verifications are currently on hold until we feel enough time has passed for runners to provide their input and we can implement the final decision.

Until this is decided I encourage you all to check out the Episode runs and individual IL sagas.

are yamcha games runs on hold too? since capsules are random there

@Beacons No, we can still verify those as the change won't apply there either way.

Were thinking of letting the vote run another day, so that folks in different timezones have ample time to see this and respond in some way.

So far the vote is heavily in favor of splitting, 16 votes to 4, so the choice is looking obvious and we will likely be able to implement the changes tomorrow.