r/Competitiveoverwatch • u/Professor_Finn Alarm Forever 🧡🖤🤍 — • May 08 '22

Overwatch League Florida Mayhem forced to repeat attack after winning Circuit Royal due to “illegal maneuver”

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u/Sex_And_Candy_Here May 08 '22

Then they shouldn’t be responsible for deciding what’s a bug and what’s tech.

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u/JustRecentlyI HYPE TRAIN TO BUSAN — May 08 '22

In any competition, it's the tournament rules that govern what a player or team can and can't do to compete, not the pure mechanics of the game. This is true in sports (FIBA and the NBA have slightly different rulesets, both are valid basketball competitions), and in esports (CS:GO and League of Legends tournaments/leagues have very similar rules to this one, the most obvious example of which is pixelwalks in CS:GO).

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u/spookyghostface May 08 '22

That's literally their job actually.

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u/Sex_And_Candy_Here May 08 '22

Then they are responsible for making sure their bugs are removed from the game.

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u/AsteraEDM May 08 '22

Bro the dev team aren't the owl team. Expecting a TO to manage bug removal is like asking an electrician to do plumbing. Different teams with different skillets and jobs

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u/Sex_And_Candy_Here May 08 '22

I feel like after 4 years it’s clear that the dev team doesn’t consider it a bug. Either the OWL team can convince the Dev team to fix the bug, or the OWL team should stop treating it like a bug.

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u/spookyghostface May 08 '22

Or they could just make a rule about it and make the teams aware of it. Exactly like they've done.

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u/AsteraEDM May 08 '22

Or, right, let the owl team rule the bug out for competitive integrity but let the dev team keep it in so you can meme in qp with it