MOBA Tournament Pick/Ban Styling

[MarioFanaticXV]

@Arcanist Lupus

MarioFanaticXV wrote:

A pure "blind pick" would be much better; each player chooses their team in full before the other player knows what they have. If you insist on metagaming, you better study your opponent's past games and see what sort of characters they prefer to pick, and the have to do the same against you.  

A blind pick might or might not be better - but it also doesn't work for Tactics, so the point is immaterial.  If each team is choosing independently, then the same character could be picked by both sides.  Now you could in theory allow multiple copies of the same character (certainly Super Smash Bros does, and I think League of Legends does too), but Tactics doesn't.  It doesn't because GtG doesn't wish it to.

Speaking of League of Legends, I would contend that it is a much better analog to Tactics than RTS games like StarCraft are.  And League of Legends does use a banning system.

Blind pick is the only alternative I can really think of the the current drafting system; I mean, other than random teams, but I don't think anyone's gonig to be arguing for that over the current system- it'd be even worse than a ban-based system.