Quote Originally Posted by Peter_Rotten View Post
@ ObFree: Could you eloborate as to how the DTBF will be less usefull for its stated purpose now?
Cool! I get to quote myself, too!
Quote Originally Posted by Obfuscate Freely View Post
Personally, I'm not going to prepare to face Baseruption, Terrageddon, or Belcher at the next major American tournament. I don't see a reason to expect those decks to be relevant to my own success. That doesn't mean that those decks shouldn't be highlighted in some way, for the benefit of our European members, but it would be misleading to give them the same label as the decks that most of us should expect to see at the tournaments that we go to.
Ignoring regional metagame differences undermines the LMF's utility as a gauntlet-creation tool. Do you disagree?
Quote Originally Posted by Obfuscate Freely View Post
However, lifting the restrictions on non-American data would allow the LMF to more comprehensively list what decks are performing well. Theoretically, the LMF could be seen as containing the best decks in the format, so it would remain a very useful tool for tournament preparation.

So, we have to decide what the purpose of the LMF should be, that's all.

EDIT:
Quote Originally Posted by The Rack View Post
THe problem PR is that the tourney we play in being FNM basically doesn't require Deck lists. So I don't really feel up to the task of asking everyone their deck lists unless of course they were one of my teammates lists. Ten we'd share. Just thought I'd throw that out there.
There has been some discussion on this topic, but it has been the policy of those collecting the data to only include tournaments for which the Top 8 decklists are available. Again, there is no East Coast bias involved.