^That's surely gonna happen if your opponent is extremely weak and he couldn't do damage on you retaining your health points and consequently the points you get. The 500 points in this test is given so you have enough allowance, as we expect you will lose health points in the process. Giving you sufficient points like 350 or something is very tight we may end up with no one winning.
IMO you should give equal weight to each section.
Read my response to Nova.
You may be of the opinion that each part should play an equal role, but the system you created doesn't reflect that. Personally, I don't like the scoring on the last part. For the first two parts you can score a max of 410 points (110 and 300). This means that you need to survive with 90 hp left, so right off the bat half of the candidates are eliminated. You believe these will be close matches, so even fewer make it through. I don't disagree with a high failure rate, if the test is designed so the best score highest.
One problem I have is that the final test measures how much better you are than your opponent, not how much better you are than the candidate pool as a whole. It assumes that all of the players are of equal skill, a premise which I find laughable.
My second problem you acknowledged clearly. If your opponent is extremely weak you get a free ride to kage. Here's a hypothetical, Kono is an egotistical bastard. He applied for kage, but thought, "why bother practicing in game? I'm a god!" So he is popular enough and smart enough to make it through the first two rounds in a good position. He gets matched up with Leebz, who got every answer wrong on the second exam. Leebz takes a shit on Kono and makes it out with full HP. I would suggest that neither deserve to be kage, but under the current system Kono fails and Leebz passes. While this is going, on Mars and Remi are going to fight. They both did well on parts one and two, and each of them practiced and is in good fighting shape. It was a close match and Mars barely took it with 200 hp remaining. Neither become kage. So right now we have two people who might deserve kage, and two who don't. The only one who passes this test, as a whole, is someone who wouldn't meet my criteria for kage. I accept that this is outlandish, but this sort of situation is inevitable over many kage exams.
I have no stake in this, but I feel these are the general complaints coming from the community.
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