Len here, speaking as a spectator: I'll be skipping most of the questions and focusing on answering both the second and third questions as someone planning on bringing someone into round three.
In regards of the trials, personally for this round I do have a huge preference for having no powers on. While powers can create good cases in of itself (props to the second week case for mock, by the way) it also 1) undermines potential for closed room cases, which are practically the bread and butter of Umineko, as characters in the round proper might have teleportation abilities which can be used as easy Blue Truth theories and 2) solvability means that all characters ICly will need to know what powers the characters have in order to potentially submit a Blue Truth that works.
As for the trial time, 12 PM EST definitely works better for me for the round proper than the old time, but that's just a personal preference.
I think that's all I got on my end. Thank you so much everyone for making this mock round fun to spectate and here's to a successful main round; I'm really excited to see what you guys push out!
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Len here, speaking as a spectator: I'll be skipping most of the questions and focusing on answering both the second and third questions as someone planning on bringing someone into round three.
In regards of the trials, personally for this round I do have a huge preference for having no powers on. While powers can create good cases in of itself (props to the second week case for mock, by the way) it also 1) undermines potential for closed room cases, which are practically the bread and butter of Umineko, as characters in the round proper might have teleportation abilities which can be used as easy Blue Truth theories and 2) solvability means that all characters ICly will need to know what powers the characters have in order to potentially submit a Blue Truth that works.
As for the trial time, 12 PM EST definitely works better for me for the round proper than the old time, but that's just a personal preference.
I think that's all I got on my end. Thank you so much everyone for making this mock round fun to spectate and here's to a successful main round; I'm really excited to see what you guys push out!