Regarding Tournament Match Hosting

I'm sure many of you have noticed a delay while playing online for the non-hosting player. As far as I know, this has affected most online matches. If connections are good and the match is not lagging, the host will have perfect gameplay, while everyone else will have a 1 second delay or more in key response. During a tournament, this could be significant enough to determine the winner before the match has even started. At the very least it provides one player with the advantage.

As a solution, I have a proposal. Someone offered to watch matches in one of the tournament threads. I propose that it be required to not only have a third party watch but that they host, so both contestants have an equal delay/lag, if any. This way we can ensure several things:

1. The match will be fair in key delay

2. Rules of the tourney will be followed

3. There will be no disagreement about the outcomes of a match or the fairness of a match.

This should suffice for 1 vs. 1 matches, however it does not solve the same issue for 2 vs. 2. Nor do I have a solution for that. So for discussion:

1. Should we implement the above rule for 1 vs. 1 matches?

2. How do we solve this problem, if at all, for team matches?

I can't think of a fix for 2v2. For 1v1, it's just as you say, a 3rd party hosts. If the timer would be an issue, extend it by enough time for all the suicides, then wait for the regular time if necessary.

There is no timer

Ah yeah, cause no one can really stall except Wario.

There would be a timer, but Crusade doesn't have a function for timed stock matches yet

None of this will be required. If I'm not mistaken, online can be programmed to cause equal delay to all players.

By the players? Because there's a tourney in 2 days