Really Ladna you&#039;re giving too much credence to Chow&#039;s remarks. The long and short of it is that he&#039;s only in the league because of the franchise system and he won&#039;t be returning next season whether or not it persists. He&#039;s just a troll and occasionally he says something that makes sense. Chalk it up to how much Puerto Ricans talk and statistics. Oh and here is why you&#039;re in the league chow...ME!!!!!! And I only did it because of my allegiance to Shak and our triangle. So you&#039;re really just a pawn if you think about it<br /><br />I can see why Cha0tix would think there was some great conspiracy. His minority upbringing lends itself to such exaggerations. If only they could afford TV their imaginations might atrophy like the rest of ours have. Fast on the other hands is an entitled white male, I cannot explain him.<br /><br />I want to emphasize how retarded he and Fast are being saying EBL got a bad wrap. Xen franchised and drafted badly. He then followed that up with captaining poorly. Now while I think he can do both effectively given some resources, he didn&#039;t have them this season and that is that. Actually one crap team a season isn&#039;t a terrible thing. They&#039;ll rebound in a big way next season...hopefully.<br /><br />Regardless, neither of Xen&#039;s missteps are on par with &quot;drowned in an ice storm&quot; or &quot;Hey the league needs a captain to take over a team or we&#039;re screwed.&quot; What does EBL have? Collision had connection problems...mid is online too late....Legion is a new guy? These are not things that merit recourse by administration and I would venture a guess that there are captains within IDL that could Captain EBL to the masterbowl with his drafted team. Mid and strange/collision are a good enough team to beat out KGB and DMR, and at least put up something against SUC. So yeah, there were some executive decisions made for BSK and DMR, but there wasn&#039;t anything unfair, and I hold the administration probably the most accountable because I am secretly bugging all their pms and channels and teamchats and bedrooms etc. Let&#039;s stop using EBL as an example of unfairness. Xen just does well every other season. Let&#039;s not put his failure on the league.<br /><br />When I read through many of these posts I hear a lot of &quot;well the league sucks and isn&#039;t doing anything&quot; followed immediately by &quot;the league does unfair and stupid things&quot; and then a little of &quot;well ralph and ladna are just evil selfish tyrants&quot;. You guys have to make up your minds. Is the league not doing enough, or are they just doing things you disagree with. Also Ralphis has way less actual input and power than all of you seem to think. He basically lets the board hang themselves most of the time, and the board is just made up of representative captains.<br /><br />Personally I think Xen should have been a board member a long time ago. This is politics if you&#039;re looking for some. Think about how UD makes up less than 50% of the board, and how Xen being an active player and willing board member was passed over just because they didn&#039;t want even the look of a UD run league. That is some hot bullshit if you ask me. He&#039;s been at the heart of IDL from the start, give him some fucking credit.<br /><br />Anyway I hope so see a lot of new people captaining next season. Blair, Jenova, Fastidious, Chain. Let&#039;s see some caps step up to a franchise-less draft and let the bedlam begin!