It isn't hard to come back from a point deficit and win a game of wushu when both players are focusing on how pretty they look and forcing quick comebacks without full regard for their own safety.

It's another skill entirely to win wushu against another player who's only goal is to win the game. Even taking running out of the equation, the point guarding, the eliminating of possible approach options, the way you comeback with 4,500 points separates you from either glory or miss-opportunity. And we've seen now that this generation of players taught wushu by players who didn't focus on winning are feeble in competition.

I really wished it didn't take a rude awakening and an interesting Halloween this year to make me realize how important it is to duel and learn how to win. If wushu players want to reclaim their mod, the focus should be on how to WIN wushu fairly. Because it's pretty damn embarrassing that clans like Alpha and fl0w were so poorly prepared to play our own mod well enough in competition that we got taken to school by non-wushu players in wushu. To quote snake from the conversation that started this all: