When we talk about trading and teams, it&#039;s important to consider what IDL is.&nbsp; I think a lot of disagreement is fundamental, as in, IDL is different things to different people -- which is totally cool!&nbsp; However, there are some things that IDL is not, and I&#039;d like to go over a couple of them:<br /><br />[size=4][b]IDL is not a tourney - clan or otherwise[/b][/size]<br /><br />A normal tourney would just let teams gather themselves &amp; enter as a group.&nbsp; IDL has a draft &amp; trading, which a tourney obviously wouldn&#039;t have.&nbsp; This is important, because it means it&#039;s really not a great &quot;measure&quot; of the best CTF players/teams.&nbsp; Sure you can use IDL to figure out who the dominant players are, and personally I believe that the team that wins the Masterbowl is the best &quot;team&quot;, but the members of that team aren&#039;t necessarily the best CTF players on ZD.&nbsp; I mean, just the different maps &amp; homefield rule give advantages one way or the other; it&#039;s simply not scientific at all.<br /><br />[size=4][b]IDL is not completely fair[/b][/size]<br /><br />There&#039;s a few things we could do to make IDL more fair.&nbsp; We could pick... 3 or 4 maps and do like ZDDL does but between teams.&nbsp; We could get rid of homefields and just designate specific playoff maps (or just use the same ones).&nbsp; We could rate players and create some kind of crazy salary cap/bidding system - or just have the board/commish pick teams.&nbsp; We discussed this stuff and decided it was boring as shit (or just a horribly bad idea), and probably not worth the trouble besides.<br /><br />[hr]<br /><br />I think the real solution to this is just more IDL players and more IDL teams.&nbsp; We&#039;re actively working on this:<br /><br />[list]<br />[li]We&#039;ve been inviting promising players into pctf[/li]<br />[li]We&#039;re working on streaming IDL games[/li]<br />[li]We&#039;re working on neato stats and Xenaero made cool achievement medals[/li]<br />[/list]<br /><br />It does mean putting up with some noobish shit, like rookie faggots talking shit or just general bad play.&nbsp; Hopefully this doesn&#039;t last forever&nbsp; :D.