[quote author=cha0tix link=topic=178.msg1555#msg1555 date=1267073321]<br />3) Shorter, frequent seasons. My team (most noticeable in myself) has lost the will to play since the bye week, and I have seen this with other teams more or less from the sharp drop in practicing. It would keep the flow of things more condensed and consistent.<br /><br />I&#039;d bail out but I owe it to Shak to stay put until we can end this season. ;)<br />[/quote]<br /><br />This happens to me too, after the BYE week I don&#039;t really feel like playing.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know what it is.&nbsp; I think technically we don&#039;t need a BYE week, it could work out like:<br /><br />KGB EBL, DMR SUC, BSK SPE, BBC FLS<br />KGB FLS, DMR EBL, BSK SUC, BBC SPE<br />KGB SPE, DMR FLS, BSK EBL, BBC SUC<br />KGB SUC, DMR SPE, BSK FLS, BBC EBL<br />KGB BSK, DMR BBC, FLS SUC, EBL SPE<br />KGB BBC, DMR BSK, FLS SPE, EBL SUC<br />KGB DMR, BBC BSK, SPE SUC, FLS EBL<br />KGB EBL, DMR SUC, BSK SPE, BBC FLS<br /><br />So that&#039;s only 8 weeks instead of 9, with 2 divisional games, and no BYE week.&nbsp; I [b]think[/b] I didn&#039;t mess it up, but who knows.&nbsp; I talked it over w/ Nostar and we thought that having multiple games a week wouldn&#039;t be too bad, but we agreed that scheduling would be ridiculous.&nbsp; Then again, if we played 2 games a week with this scheme, the IDL regular season would only last 4 weeks.&nbsp; I guess now that I say it though, that seems a little short!&nbsp; And on the other hand, I get what Bones is saying about each game being crucial: FLS has only lost 2 games and we&#039;re still in a race to get the BYE and Homefield Advantage.&nbsp; Is it too much of a stretch to think that teams can play more than one game in a week?<br /><br />Something else that Mantis &amp; Goatface brought up: teams could have homefield servers and games could be alternated.&nbsp; I don&#039;t know how fair it could be, like if FLS only plays BSK once on BSK&#039;s homefield server, that&#039;s a pretty big advantage.&nbsp; But then again I guess some teams are already disadvantaged just playing on TT, so what do I know.&nbsp; We could also do an average ping thing; I know it can be gamed, but we can probably figure that out pretty quickly :).&nbsp; In fact, TT logs pings sporadically, so I probably have enough data right now to put up some rough averages.<br /><br />And yeah Stallion I remember Season 1 when players would join Public CTF with their IDL tags.&nbsp; That was pretty good advertising to me, I was jealous of the IDL players.&nbsp; The &quot;[IDL]&quot; tag and site/IRC spamming is a good idea though.&nbsp; All it takes is a simple bind!&nbsp; You know what, now that I think about it, TT is the most popular Pub CTF server set, maybe I&#039;ll change the MOTD and advertise the shit out of IDL heh.<br /><br />And hey cha0tix, I&#039;m glad you bailed us out this season.&nbsp; I&#039;ve enjoyed watching you play and I hope you come back.&nbsp; In fact I hope you make it to playoffs and we get to play you again.&nbsp; No homo.