I should be doing coursework right now but I am not.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=544.msg5541#msg5541 date=1322775552]<br />My understanding is Mikehail has resigned from the board (not sure if this was made public) and Bones is looking for a replacement.&nbsp; Why doesn&#039;t someone like Jenova or Chow step in for him?[/quote]<br /><br />Politics, currently. You answered your own question. There are some that could stonewall the nomination process.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=544.msg5541#msg5541 date=1322775552]I never came out with a specific &quot;HEY LOOK AT THIS MAP!&quot;[/quote]<br /><br />It&#039;s super helpful if people do this. If the board has to look at 20 wads and filter down from 200 maps, some fan favorites could be missed where there&#039;s no weighted opinion on them to begin with! Sorry your map didn&#039;t get played seriously. Very few maps did. It was a huge blunder we made in organization.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=544.msg5541#msg5541 date=1322775552]I think the whole #idlb thing is a joke.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never go in there but I understand there are now 10 or so people who hang out in there.&nbsp; Why not just suck it up and do discussions in #idl.&nbsp; You guys already admit to arguing for hours, it&#039;s possible the added people in #idl might actually speed things up.&nbsp; I&#039;ve never been a fan of secrecy or elites only discussions.&nbsp; Excluding people is not what the IDL was built on.[/quote]<br /><br />As if argueing about things in #idl will speed anything along, considering the addition of lets say ~5 more opinions. It&#039;s not exactly secret what goes on in the board channel. Just because you don&#039;t join it does not mean it&#039;s a secret channel.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=544.msg5541#msg5541 date=1322775552]A big part of it is the board operates in secrecy and doesn&#039;t try to get the public involved.&nbsp; Basically they decide in secret then announce the decisions, then the public says, &quot;WTF?!?!&quot;, then the board says &quot;too late!&quot;.&nbsp; That has been happening season after season and it&#039;s pretty dumb.[/quote]<br /><br />See above. There has also been a significant amount of involvement in multiple matters with board decisions so far in this pre-season, and it&#039;s not over yet.<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=544.msg5541#msg5541 date=1322775552]I wish we had map stats off TT to see what people play in priv (for 3v3, 4v4, etc).&nbsp; Then we could see real popularity of maps not just opinions.&nbsp; There have been some basically unplayed maps in the wad across multiple seasons now.&nbsp; I know priv isn&#039;t IDL but it would show what players actually like to play.&nbsp; There is some merit to a balanced IDL schedule but I much prefer Quake style where teams pick what maps they use.&nbsp; It&#039;s hard for players/teams to bitch if they can pick maps they play on and you&#039;d see more of the wad used.&nbsp; Why even fucking include 32 maps if the IDL season doesn&#039;t even use a 1/3 of them?[/quote]<br /><br />9 + 12 + 1 = 22 out of 32 maps that are selected by the Commissioner for Regular Season, Captains for homefields, and the Masterbowl. In reality, only 4 of the homefield maps get playtime. If my mathematical skills are correct, that is 14 maps. Nearly 1/2 out of the entire map pool selectable. The homefield selection shows that captains do pick maps. While you might prefer a style used in a different game, I much prefer for dissenting voices to have factual information on hand when making arguments. I might have to have MassVC check my mathematics. You could be right!<br /><br />Approach Ladna about the stats thing, it would be interesting to see in a graph!<br /><br />[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=544.msg5541#msg5541 date=1322775552][quote author=Ladna link=topic=544.msg5516#msg5516 date=1322705008]<br />- When mikehail brought up my idea of namespacing the Masterbowl maps differently (like &quot;map mb001&quot;), the board voted it down[/quote]<br /><br />This is such an awesome idea Ralphis should just put it in the wad even if the board is against it, haha.[/quote]<br /><br />You know what&#039;s messed up about this is that I would be really on board with it if it were explained properly by Mr. Hail. He might have had tapeworms that day or something, but the vote was understood as something different than what was said by Ladna here.<br /><br />edit: I missed something<br /><br />[quote]1.&nbsp; Guys who aren&#039;t playing have a say if they post on the forums[/quote]<br /><br />Should they not? I don&#039;t know what you&#039;re implying by stating this.