[checkmyparanoia]

lol at the many deleted posts.
warp to blue then 5 seconds is best. pipes might be "overpowered" but thats not the purpose of this topic. the problem is that pipes, and many other weapons can autospawnkill (or at least get in QUITE a few hits, ie chaingun/bluerifle/redrifle/smg) in the spar arenas. now, personally i think you're a ******* if you enter when someone is spawnkilling.. but it is annoying to see their ratings go up because someone is stupid enough to think they can handle getting shot when walking through the door.

on another improvement:
i think it'd be great to have different arenas sorted by ranking.. because now someone with 2500 can fight over and over against 1400 people.. and because of the huge skill difference they can win everytime. and get rating everytime. while they get small amounts of rating, it is still, in my opinion, too possible to "outclass" the others at the arena. i say several different rooms organized by rating, and 1 unrated room (any can play.).

in other words, each room will have a spar rating range of a few hundred.. so people are fighting against similiarly ranked opponets. if you've noticed, the top ratings went from around 2000.. to what, 2600? 2700 now? i really doubt those people are that "good".. but it is very possible to acquire that rating when everyone you fight against is 300 points or more below you.