So basically you'd give them some extra points for using an old anime. Sort of like evening the field if the other guy uses a really good anime. Let's say everything has a numerical value. There's virtually no way for you to know exactly how many points will even the field between EVA rebuild and Classic NGE. You'd either give it to the NGE user because of the handicap, or to the Rebuild user because of entertainment or your judgment of editing skills (which is bound to be inaccurate). With the existence of tiers, judges could forgo giving handicap points altogether. You'd know what you were getting into. It'd be a list of who's considered weaker, so if someone wanted to use a weaker source in a higher tier, then that's on them and not the judge.JaddziaDax wrote:One has older animation one has newer animation. I guess I don't tier them in that way because I take the context of when they were made as well.
Not to mention my statement about familiarity still stands. I'm sure that someone more familiar with Kenshin will do better with it if they are not very familiar with Champloo.
And your statement of familiarity is completely irrelevant. If an editor is only familiar with old or bad animes and he does better with them than newer or good animes then he's already at a disadvantage as if his opponent is the typical editor these days then he's probably familiar with (at the very least) one of the EVA rebuilds or FF7. So that actually supports the existence of tiers. The old-school anime lover can ic in some of the lower tiers where his lowly kenshin and YuYu stand a chance.
I'm not saying we should have tiers
