Is the training stage a standard, SSF4 AE 2012

Evo Championship Series
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I’m watching old evo 2k12 matches of ssf4, and I noticed that seemingly ALL of the matches played on the big screen were in the training stage.

Is this a required new standard or rule?

2

I thought the stages were agreed upon between the competitors…

3

Just from speculation;

I believe the reason for choosing the Training Stage is due to avoid animated/interactive background scenery, and/or to avoid offline lag issues.

4

That and it tends to be the easiest stage to judge how far away you are from the corner/center.

All of this applies doubly so for MvC3.

5

There are no offline lag issues unless you’re playing on the PC version with a bad computer. People only pick the training stage based on speculation and because they saw some pro Japanese player do it. There isn’t any difference at all. The fat kids in the overpass stage aren’t lagging your game. I promise.

6

I laughed when that guy said offline lag, but this stage does help with online lag though.
People choose training stage because it’s plain and simple with no background distractions to effect focus on the important things. Besides training stage is just bad ass in general, i love the music on this stage. It’s even sicker when the announcer is like " this is it! it’s the one we’ve all been waiting for! "

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It doesn’t help with offline lag either. That is a complete myth. The only two entities that matter in a peer to peer connection are the players. The man sitting on his boat in beautiful bay doesn’t count as an additional player.

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Alright, alright, I get the point. But just remember, all of this was just for speculation purposes.