Okay, first I like the playoff idea of best 3/5 playoffs. Especially in the conference and masterbowl. I can see really great games coming from that and with the 10 minute limit it wouldn&#039;t go much longer than an hour (excluding the tiebreaker maps).<br /><br />Now for the SUC address.<br /><br />If you think that trading JKist was what SPE did wrong you&#039;re just being naive. First of all who doesn&#039;t win with White and Chain on their team. Franchising that guy is just a fucking mistake. Second, aside from picking a bad player as a franchise they also choose JKist instead of Collision or METALBLACK. Those are way more reasonable picks for a CTF league than JKist for anyone but SUC. I&#039;m not knocking Nero, I think he was trying things out and will make a serious impact next season. He learned his lesson about some players and we all have those experiences. But to say you&#039;re quitting because you&#039;re unhappy with your team is silly. I was on VGR when saber quit and we got Naut and I showed to every game and when I was traded to the worst team in the league record-wise continued to play. Stop being a pissant and play some doom or go away.<br /><br />Dewww is 100% right. Trading Kist was the right call for SPE, and mortal played as well or better for them as he is a veteran defender and could practice with the euro team probably more so that Kist would have or even could have.. If anything franchising Fastidious was the mistake. I made a similar mistake in Season 4 drafting Caboose knowing he has a really shitty attitude and isn&#039;t reliable at all. I made a captaining decision to&nbsp; trade Kandy for Potent and as a result of that Caboose quit on me because he disagreed with my decision. And while I made due for the rest of the season it really hurt my team. Players like Fastidious and Caboose who extort their captains (intentionally or unintentionally) hurt the league way more than perceived bad trades. They displace the skill level of teams (losing a 1st or 2nd pick to politics) and make trading way more of a taboo thing for captains to take advantage of.<br /><br />I&#039;m not totally sure about the recruitment drive issue either. I mean if we keep the league at 8 teams (which I do see happening) I&#039;m seeing enough activity in priv that I don&#039;t foresee a drought in players. Don&#039;t get me wrong, I wouldn&#039;t mind some new players putting their names in the ring (aside from Mistopher) but as it stands there are 8 active players from EVO, 6 from UD, 3-4 from NS, a few DXers laying about still and miek too. Count in the stable R sign ups and you&#039;ve got 24 at least. I agree it would be nice to see a recruitment drive but really add euros and I don&#039;t see a major issue. I play public from time to time and there isn&#039;t like some untapped resource or anything. It&#039;s trash like always and most active good players figure it out and join IDL anyway. We post in the forums and some of us hang out in zdirc.<br /><br />The problem with this season is that Ralphis dropped out. Fuck that guy he&#039;s gay. BAM. Everything else was good.