I know this is probably too late for anything, but here's my two cents.

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1) What do you think Flame notes should be worth? It seems that most posters in this thread aren't opposed to the suggestion that Flame notes were previously over powered... but where do you see the balance between "over powered" and "under powered"?

2) If the Flame note values remain as is would you rather see the leaderboards reset or see them remain as is?

3) How often do you use Flame notes when playing Blitz? Never, sometimes, all the time?

4) How important are top leaderboard scores to you on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being "never think about them" and 10 being "they consume my every waking moment"?
1) The value should be set back to what it was, while other power ups should be buffed. Doing any sort of leaderboard wipe while nerfing power-ups is a terrible, terrible thing. Bring the other power ups in line with flame notes and let the chasing for #1s begin anew.

2) I don't see anything positive coming from this option.

3) I use Flame notes about 50% of the time, but I don't chase scores (see #4). My usual load-out is road rage - blast notes - super guitar, but only because I can lazily gold star most songs this way.

4) -5. I care nothing for leaderboards or chasing them, I just play through songs on Blitz to interact with my music a different way. I don't even chase my own scores.

I believe at this point it's not so much a matter of completely balancing the power ups as much as it is keeping customer confidence. Nerfing things and wiping the leaderboard does not do this, while buffing the others brings a level of new intrigue and freshness to the game.

There's no need to destroy the Kingdom when the castle just needs a few upgrades.

On the topic of the tournament coming up:

Here is where you can nerf flame notes, but I still don't feel that this would be a great solution. What you should do is just ban the bandmate/flame note/xxx loadout, kind of like when Street Fighter or Soul Calibur bans certain characters for tournaments. That to me would be the quickest and most effective "fix" for the short time you have to get it running.