After controllers dominated in the GOAT tournament, the aim assist debate took center stage
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GOAT tournament results overshadowed by controller vs. mouse-keyboard debate
Gdolphn’s 1 vs. 1 tournament yesterday was an interesting experiment. The format—first to 15 knockdowns—was probably too long for the size of the bracket. Snip3down, who was originally signed up to play, said on his stream that it was too much of a time committment and ended up blowing it off.
Players started on either side of a head-height boulder, which lead to frequent re-positioning to find the best head glitches (there’s a good explanation of this phenomenon at the link) or races to see who could climb up the boulder fastest to begin their R-99 spray.
Fights were quick, but tedious. Most of them looked exactly the same: R-99 trades, followed by Wingman finishers, with the winner determined by who hit their Wingman shots first. A starting position of just a few meters apart all but guaranteed that controllers would win these fights. It is nearly impossible for a mouse and keyboard player to compete against the computer-aided consistency of a controller player with an R-99 at that distance. Extremely good controller players Zoid and Slurpee took 1st and 2nd respectively. Hal, tied for 3rd, played on controller as well (and donated nearly half of the $1000 prize pool for the event—maybe hoping to get some of that money back? :))
There were some disagreements among players over the score, server switching, and starting position, but a lack of tourney personnel to spectate or arbitrate player disputes. In general, possibly due to the format, this event did not go as smoothly as the Daltoosh Invitational, though the Twitch viewership was strong, with over 12,000 visitors to Hal’s stream. And before the tournament was even over, the aim assist debate reared its ugly head on Twitter.
Oraxe’s tweet below, with an attached video that shows strong target gravity at the firing range, has blown up, with more than 185,000 views. If nothing else, aim assist gets those clicks.
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