Getting Relegated Is The Best Part Of Switch Sports

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There were plenty of reasons to hate last year's proposed Super League. Clubs picked as founding members were there on global merchandising potential, not merit. It was designed by and to appeal to the very worst characters in football, those who see fans as consumers and players as commodities. But the most reviled thing, more than the money, more than the clubs involved, more than the men behind it, was the lack of relegation. There was a stink of anti-sport about the whole thing. The game, as the saying goes, had gone. Nintendo Switch Sports has been an unlikely reminder of why relegation is so important.

I cannot make up my mind about Nintendo Switch Sports. It's so uselessly barren offline that I would advise anybody not intending to play online to avoid buying it altogether. It also feels like it's missing a lot of key sports from the Wii Sports series and has a confusingly stop-start rewards system. Yet I cannot stop playing it. Relegation is a key reason why.

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Although I find it frustrating (and close to form) that you need to earn the ranked system, once you're on it, it's very simple. Win, and you fill up a power meter, lose, and it drops. Max it out and you are promoted to the next rank, but lose and you are relegated in ignominy. I have been has high as B+ in Football, and so, so close to the A rank. However, I dropped as low as C having been just two wins away from A, and have now clawed my way up to C+. I seem to have been bouncing around C+ and B- for a while, the letter change only making my glory and defeat all the more stark. I am E rank in Volleyball and Badminton, and surely not too far off in Bowling having never