Triple Triad Time Limit Too Short

[Niwashi]

If someone is a "good strategist", why can't they beat a bad strategist, when they each have 30 seconds? xD

Because in 30 seconds, neither player is using strategy. Skill at a technique that you're not allowed to use isn't helpful.

Speed Chess.

Yes, that's a good analogy. Chess and Speed Chess use the same board, the same game pieces, and even most of the same rules. But the addition of one extra rule limiting the time you can take completely changes the whole nature of the game. Chess is a game of strategy. Speed chess is a game of pattern recognition. Despite their obvious but superficial similarities, they're not even in the same genre of games.

Here we're being given the Triple Triad equivalent of speed chess, but without being given its equivalent of chess itself. Those of us who enjoy having strategy in games want the strategy version of this one.