frogboy wrote: I just found it funny that he's so passionate about something and willing to question people's integrity on the subject that won't even effect him/us.
We've talked about this before, but whether or not it affects you is entirely up to you. No-one is born magically possessing the Blood Bowl chops to win tournaments. It’s a skill game, albeit one with a short-term luck component similar to, say, poker. If you put the effort in to improve your game then you increase your odds of winning each match, and consequently each tournament.
If someone doesn’t want to put the effort in that’s completely fine too. Blood Bowl is still lots of fun when the player isn't particularly good at it. Everyone reaches their own level where they are happy with their current ability vs their willingness to put the effort in to get better.
However, where things get particularly insidious is the notion that a person who doesn’t care enough about the quality of his play to work towards earning a title, should still be entitled to an excellent shot at being crowned the winner of a
competitive event, that it is somehow a good thing to design rulesets in a way deliberately targeted at turning the winner’s trophy into a semi-random participation trophy.
An ‘elite tournament winners’ circle seeking to ‘keep out the plebs’ as intimated earlier in the thread is nonsense. Anyone can gain entry to this mystical circle simply by earning it on merit.
I have no idea of Gresh’s situation, support network, or inclination to improve, but purely based on his keenness for fair competition displayed in this thread I’d say he has an excellent chance of developing into a formidable tournament player
if he chooses to do so.