[quote author=Ladna link=topic=619.msg6337#msg6337 date=1330503965]<br />Apparently this season is a total goddamn failure because of some textures.[/quote]<br />Not even close. Allow me to get to 3 main core problems with this season.<br /><br />1. The Board being not being representative of the players<br />2. The Board generally being an unlikeable bunch<br />3. The Board being a mess<br /><br /><br />It&#039;s not just the textures alone. As hatred stated, its the fact that nearly all of the players despised the mspaint look of 32. Yeah there was a poll made. But it was made [u]AFTER[/u] the vote was made to keep the original textures. What does that tell us? They don&#039;t give a fuck about what we have to say. Even if it wasn&#039;t a large sample size, as hatred said, its quite obvious that players hate the textures. Just because board members didn&#039;t have a problem with it (aside from dew) doesn&#039;t mean its a great decision to make. In fact, I believe I was in the board channel when the vote on the textures were taking place. If I remember correctly, one member said something along the lines of:<br /><br />&#039;well the colors don&#039;t hurt my eyes so I vote original&#039;<br /><br />Ok well, it doesn&#039;t matter what [u]YOU[/u] think, it matters what the players think. Clearly this is an example of the type of problem with the board: they are out of touch of whats best for the league and whats best for the players. You have the map28 spawn issue which should not have even been an issue to begin with. The map was fine the way it was played and a lot of us had spent a whole year playing it and developing strategies for it. Whoever says that the 6 spawns doesn&#039;t change the map entirely needs doesn&#039;t know jack shit and needs to quit competitive CTF forever. By allowing the 2 lower pistol spawns, the map is pretty much broken. Even Xenaero, who was a major proponent of the 6 spawn system admitted it was stupid to have those 2 worthless spawns. Now the point is why destroy a map that had one of the best playoff games of all time (EBL vs SUC) and that quite often produced great matches. It was a great map for IDL in the state that it was and now its just filler in the wad. <br /><br />Now, I do not want to repeat myself about other maps like old 30 and 07 being removed because although it was something that pissed off some players, I believe there is a more important issue that needs to be addressed: the attitude of the board. I have already given examples of dewww and mike, but I&#039;ll give some verbal accounts that will help complete the picture of what is wrong with the attitude of the board:<br /><br />[hr]<br /><br />[size=4][url=http://rust.unidoom.org/map28spawns.ogg]Map 28 Spawns 2:16[/url][/size]<br />Summary: Board incompetence. Players&#039; opinions on maps do not matter until they playtest maps (via idl games). However, its obvious not even the board properly playtested certain maps. In addition the board once again fails to take note of player opinion.<br /><br /><br />[size=4][url=http://rust.unidoom.org/boardperception.ogg]Board Perception 1:13[/url][/size]<br />Summary: Board actions are okay because they do it despite it being the same actions deemed wrong because they were committed by a non-board member.<br /><br /><br />[size=4][url=http://rust.unidoom.org/boardattitude1.ogg]Board Attitude 1 2:19[/url][/size]<br />Summary: Ralph discusses the board&#039;s poor attitude towards players<br /><br /><br />[size=4][url=http://rust.unidoom.org/boardattitude2.ogg]Board Attitude 2 3:55[/url][/size]<br />Summary: Hatred gives another example of poor attitude.<br /><br /><br />[size=4][url=http://rust.unidoom.org/boardattitude3.ogg]Board Attitude 3 2:50[/url][/size]<br />Summary: Jenova gives an example of why the board has heat<br /><br />[size=4]<br />[url=http://rust.unidoom.org/boardattitude4.ogg]Board Attitude 4 1:07[/url][/size]<br />Summary: Jenova gives another scenario<br /><br /><br />[size=4][url=http://rust.unidoom.org/mikehailissue.ogg]Unnecessary Problems :56[/url][/size]<br />Summary: Mikehail spectator issue<br /><br />[hr]<br /><br />The above audio basically paints the picture of the attitude and actions of the board and why players dislike the board. One more thing I&#039;d like to touch on is the state of the board. There are 2 factions in the board currently and as a result it becomes hectic during discussions. Therefore, this hectic nature is reflected in the decision of the board such as the Libraries/Proctf event. <br /><br />I&#039;ll allow ralph to explain this more thoroughly:<br /><br />[url=http://rust.unidoom.org/boardproblem1.ogg]Problem 1:42[/url]<br />[url=http://rust.unidoom.org/boardsolution.ogg]Solution 2:11[/url]<br /><br /><br />The problem starts with members of the board and if they can&#039;t change their attitudes then players simply are not going to play in a league under them. It is simple as that.<br /><br />[quote=Ladna][quote]<br />[02:35:03]	&lt;Jenova&gt;	i just want to play some doom where there arent complete assholes running it[/quote]<br /><br />Can we get back to this please?[/quote]<br />Yeah, lets start by having board members change their attitudes and if they cannot, then they need to fuck off.