Quote Originally Posted by Epsilon82 View Post
But that's exactly the point: their own interpretation of their data does absolutely nothing to lend credence to their contention that Tournament participation would have been lower if they hadn't nerfed Flames. If a vast majority of Blitz players can't even get 5 stars, then what on Earth makes them think those players would be tuned in enough to the machinations of the highest echelons of Blitz play that they would even give a flying crap about it at all?
That makes sense then. To be honest, this thread has gotten long enough to the point where I forget what's been said and why we're all yelling so loudly. :P When you put it that way, it does appear that Flame notes players got hosed.

To play devil's advocate for HMX, I would guess they didn't want the top 4 scores on each leaderboard to look ridiculously daunting... even though with Pinball/Sync, the top 4 scores are exactly that. :X Maybe they wouldn't have found out Pinball/Sync was as/more broken had Flames not been nerfed? I dunno. *shrug*

At this point, I would hope they return Flames to 1,500 and limit future tournaments to specific songs and loadouts. If, by my own logic, a majority of the people were not affected by the Flame nerf, then conversely, a majority of the people would not be affected by returning Flames to their original value.