Critical Edge: A Brief History of Banning...

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The french banned the DJ CaS moveset because it is broken. Malek wrote the strat guide, did the frame data, and they decided he was broken and would be banned. True story no bullshit.
It's way too early in the lifecycle of the game to consider a character broken. Hilde's BS wasn't immediately obvious in SCIV, VC wasn't found until later in SCIII, etc. Conversely, we never had such early access to frame data before, either. If top players are doing frame data and play testing the game and have already found obvious balance issues, this might need to be considered.
That being said, he IS a CaS and by the simplest interpretation of the rules he needs to be banned. This may upset a few players and make a few others ponder the legitimacy of the ban, but oh well. We need to look out for the best interest of the community as a whole, not just the potential influx of Tekken players that may join in after seeing yet another Mishima show up in the Soul Calibur world.
As far as making the decision now, I personally believe it is a bit hasty to have it banned right out of the gate. I propose a soft-ban on the character set, but it would be difficult to implement across all of the community and all TO's in the country. While I believe that many regions will come to a final decision in the coming weeks/months and we should likely follow suit to the overall decision, I have to stand against the idea of allowing EVO to be the deciding factor. As someone else already pointed out, EVO never seems to consider Calibur to be an important franchise, and consequently it has always been something of a "shelf-item" on the roster.
 
I used to run small dozen-man SCIV tournaments and even at the local level, everything that can go wrong will go wrong in real time. Trying to work around DJ is just asking to make things complicated. As far as I'm concerned, if it takes more than a button click at the character select screen to make your pick then it doesn't belong at the tournament.
 
i say allow him til he's proven to be broken/unbalanced i play in SC tournaments to support the scene when i can all this banning is bullshit unless there are things that can truly be unmanageable to deal with like the ALGOL bubble infinites in SC4 i say LEARN THE MATCH UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my 2 cents
 
Having a balance ban before the community gets its hands on it is a little too totalitarian for my tastes in a game community. I don't care how good FR/GE's intentions are in this situation. If this game's community can't handle a busted character or two at launch, it can't handle being a fighting game community.

Luckily, we have the CAS restriction to throw the DJ ban under so we don't have to deal with it for a bit.
 
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