I was going to sit down and draft an entire essay response to your ridiculously passive-aggressive trash, but I&#039;m going to just bullet point instead:<br /><br />[b]1)[/b] Don&#039;t act like you care about the players more than Ladna or I ever did. Yes, the IDL isn&#039;t perfect but as far as I can see, you are taking a direction that is far worse than anything that we ever did by attempting to both devalue draft priorities and, what I think is an even worse offense, devalue actual roster spots. We made decisions that we thought were best for the league, and I did it many seasons before Ladna even showed up. Turns out that those decisions were likely close to correct as we continued for ten seasons. Five years. <br /><br />In the mean time, everyone else&#039;s attempts to run anything even remotely similar were total, utter failures. I made the decisions that I did because I thought they were the best for the IDL. There was often little dissension amongst the players and myself, barring maybe Chaindude and Fastidious. Additionally, myself and Ladna often absorbed the burden of our decisions solely and directly. I question if we will see this from an administration of five people that can&#039;t even agree on who said what.<br /><br />[b]2)[/b] You preach about transparency but, aside from posting some rules, you guys are no different from what we were EXCEPT for the fact that we would straight up tell people that we were making the decisions and that&#039;s the way it was. You are offering a false &quot;participatory&quot; community. You are running your mouth about how nobody provided suggestions of what maps to add hot on the heels of preaching to others about how all of your discussion goes through the forums.<br /><br />Where is your thread about map suggestions? There isn&#039;t one. You know what there is? [url=http://forums.intldoomleague.org/index.php?topic=494.0]A thread about booting out unwanted maps by RustKing[/url]. Do you know where you posted in the thread? [b]NO WHERE[/b]. What you have done in this thread though is make claims that you listen to players through the forums.<br /><br />I&#039;d like to see some type of evidence that you actually listened to the players in that thread at all! I have no hard evidence of this (because it is impossible to produce), but my guess is that you picked maps out of your own personal preferences. That is pretty obvious considering what stayed and what was cut. Historical, well played IDL maps get cut but maps like ZDCTF09, ZDCTF11, and Map12 stay? Are you serious? Am I being [i]too ultra conservative[/i]?<br /><br />[b]3)[/b] [i]Who are you to represent the players anyway[/i]? I think you are a horrible choice to be any type of leader for the IDL at this point in time due to having both a short and sketchy history. Let&#039;s look at your track record over the course of the league&#039;s history:<br /><br />-You play a few partial seasons as Albatross and basically flake out every single one of those seasons (as well as being ridiculously close with alleged cheater Kubrick at this time).<br /><br />-You reappear as &quot;MassVC&quot; and basically try to act like you are some new rookie until you accidentally sign a comic with your name and you get outed. Nostar and Ladna obviously know who you are the entire time and nobody else knows. Nobody is still sure who is or isn&#039;t a person when it comes to Kubrick/Albatross/Ladna/Nostar/MassVC. Remember, you&#039;re the guy accusing my leadership of not being transparent.<br /><br />-You play two seasons back as &quot;MassVC&quot; and become the board leader and start trying to push radical changes on a league and system that has, for the most part, worked just fine for half a decade.<br /><br />-You clearly have little respect for the history and traditions of the league.<br /><br />Believe what you want at the end of the day. You can believe that what we did for five years was &quot;lethargic, uninvolved, whimsical, or overly conservative&quot;, but then remember that the only reason you have a league to administrate is because not only did we do everything, we did it great. There was nothing whimsical or lethargic about over a hundred players playing in the IDL at one time or another. We&#039;ll see just how much harder you actually do work. Let&#039;s reevaluate in 2016.<br /><br />The players are keen to things that have been happening and I believe most of them see right through this administration&#039;s (read: your) so-called transparency. Was there ever as much unrest prior to this great, newfound era of IDL &quot;transparency&quot;? You tell me.