On February 09 2010 22:52 [-Bluewolf-] wrote:
How many sports allow their practices to be fully recorded and for said practices to potentially be available to their opponents prior to playing?
How many sports allow their practices to be fully recorded and for said practices to potentially be available to their opponents prior to playing?
How many sports teams allow their opponents to their practice in the first place?
I bet every pro team records their practices and studies them, at least to some degree. If you're practicing against another team, you bet they're going to be recording it.
Similarly in SC you and your practice partners get to save replays. There has been discussion of a public replay database or somesuch, but that is not what is being discussed here so I'll assume that does not exist. Your opponent does not practice against you = they only get your replays if you or your practice partners give them out.
I don't see how you can use this argument to say that replays should have any sort of limitation on who can view them/how much people can view.
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If you do not have a trustworthy group of practice partners, that sucks for you. Yes that seriously hinders your chances of being good competitively. I see nothing wrong with this though.
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Personally I agree with many that replays should be fully available to both parties in the game, for reasons already mentioned so I see no need to repeat them.