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User:Rabble/acrolines
Speed Acro Lines take place at the Alcyone Acro Field (coords and picture to follow).
There are some rules for speed acro:
- When you arrive, stand in the queue and pay careful attention to the regional chat. The person at the front of the queue should move to the first teacher once that spot opens.
- When the moderator of the line calls out MOVE, ALL students should immediately move to the next teacher. Do NOT wait for the pair in front of you to clear. Just run right into them.
- When a student gets to a blank teaching station, they can choose to take up teaching or continue to the end of the line. Once they reach the end of the line, they should take up teaching.
Speed acro limits the time spent at each station. The limit is normally 3 to 5 minutes per pair.
Limiting the time might not seem like a good way to learn facets -- especially when you find a great teacher or master and want just one more move. But it works.
The big killer in acro lines is the delay. Un-timed acro lines only move as fast as the slowest acro pair. And there is always some teacher who wants to show every move 10+ times or some student who lags or someone who crashed and isn't moving. This one slow person can hold up a whole line and cause people to leave early or not participate at all.
Most teachers in acro are blurs, last resorts or pretty good teachers. Although you'll get a few facets from these folks, they happen slowly. In the same time you pickup one or two facets from a poor teacher, you can gain many more facets from a master or GT.
Speed acro eliminates the long delays caused by an errant pair and it moves you through the poorly matching pairs quickly so that you find your GTs and masters.
The main goal of running into the next acro pair is to eliminate delays caused by slow client updates. In many cases, the student in front of you might already be moving but your PC hasn't updated this yet. Charging into them prevents this delay. And it also forces the next pair to say quick goodbyes and move forward.
