Forum talk:Tier list debate 2020: Part 1

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So, since Toomai has formally concluded this debate, it has been over a year since then with no word on what "Part 2" would entail. In that time, I feel this debate has become outdated and whatever Toomai has planned should just be scrapped. Besides the significant time gap since Toomai's conclusion, most comments in this forum are upwards of two years old from users who were less educated on the matter than they are now, and more significantly, PG Stats has emerged as a suitable replacement for the SmashBoards Back Room. Notably, back in March of last year, PG Stats posted a new Melee tier list that was widely accepted by the community and immediately became the basis of our current Melee tier coverage without any opposition. I feel, with offline events having been back for a while now and Ultimate's updates being finished, it's a matter of time before PG Stats puts out a tier list for Ultimate, and that's the tier list people are going to uphold as the most "official", both within SmashWiki's userbase and especially outside it. As such, there's no point in trying to continue creating our own "aggregate tier list", and we should just readily accept what PG Stats eventually puts out as Ultimate's tier list. Plus their tier list essentially works as an "aggregate tier list" anyway, so those that still insist on Option 3 should be satisfied with them, and I would trust them more to put such together than whatever SmashWiki users could do.

So basically what I'm saying:

• Cancel "Tier list debate: Part 2" and scrap the idea of SmashWiki creating its own aggregate tier list.

• Accept PG Stats as our new source for tier lists for Ultimate and Melee for the foreseeable future.

This topic has been rumbled about a lot in the Discord server for the past year, so it's time to formally resolve it. Omega Tyrant 22:28, April 11, 2022 (EDT)