Originally posted by wetrat
Uhhh zazen... anyone who's worth a damn in the DA can slaughter the tools in the MA without incident. If you think otherwise, it's YOU that's delusional. Show up for a KoTH some time... 9/10 guys there are good duellers (uhh.. duh.. KoTH is a giant duel), and all of them are "good" in the MA when they want to be.
Yup I agree, I never said people who are good at duelling cannot be or aren't good in the MA. What I said was a giant chunk of the guys on channel 200, freshly killed, that always want to take their slayer to the DA are not good at either the MA or the DA. If you are good at one you are very likely at least potentially good at the other, likewise if you suck at one you likely suck at the other. But there's a huge proportion of the population that suck at both, relatively speaking, these are the guys predominantly spewing DA challenges on 200 in the MA everytime they get wacked.
This is responsible for part of the stigma associated with the DA. Every two bit MA fairy that gets wacked wants to take the wacker to the DA. It gets rediculous, if someone who kills alot duelled everyone they killed, they'd have to quit work, stop eating and sleeping and eventually they'd never get to play in the MA at all, I know, I have been there. Eventually enough is enough and you either duel everyone and give up the MA altogther or, "Just Say No!" to disgruntled victim's duel challenges and enjoy the MA, I chose the latter course of action about 10 years ago and have been having tremendous fun.
I kept track a few months ago just out of curiosity, I was challenged to 83 duels during that one camp by people I killed (there were some repeats from the same people, 67 unqiue individuals) and that was a slow'ish month. That doesn't even count the challenges I get from people on the BBS who I beat in intellectual debate that want to try to reclaim victory by duelling ?!?
Zazen
