Why?<br /><br />I understand where you&#039;re coming from: you want to play in a league with people you know and like, not Mobius and Dawsonation.&nbsp; You want to play in a league with talented players who can possibly match your skill level in CTF, not Mobius and Dawsonation.&nbsp; I knew what you were doing when you started this thread.&nbsp; You wanted to see if the other great players were signing up so you could decide if you were signing up too.&nbsp; But, as my half-serious encouragement did not reveal, this sort of attitude pisses me off.<br /><br />This fucking I&#039;m-not-jumping-in-the-pool-until-everybody-else-jumps-in-the-pool mentality that everybody has is killing IDL.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because NOBODY JUMPS IN THE POOL.&nbsp; (See: [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diffusion_of_responsibility]Diffusion of Responsibility[/url] and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prisoner&#039;s_dilemma]The Prisoner&#039;s Dilemma[/url] where signing up is akin to keeping your mouth shut.)&nbsp; I hear so many great players say that: I won&#039;t join until the other great players do.&nbsp; Since none of them takes the other&#039;s word for it, nobody signs up!&nbsp; If, instead, they would just sign up, everybody would have what they want!<br /><br />Denny, Darkangel, Metalblack, Whopper, Ghoulslayer, Kyte, Yuna,&nbsp; Wrath, NationalCamper, Kandy, Juggalo, Rosebird, ExWizard, theotherme, Takane, the list goes on, aren&#039;t signing up as far as I know, nor have I heard from them in some time.&nbsp; If any of you could get them to sign up, that would be great, but I&#039;m not holding out.&nbsp; On the other hand, the players I previously mentioned (except Denny) are here and ready to play if you give them some encouragement.<br /><br />What you&#039;re doing is not encouragement; it is holding yourself hostage, and it is hurting the league.&nbsp; What you should do instead is say, &quot;Yes, I am signing up!&quot; And then pm all of your friends and demand that they sign up too.&nbsp; If they don&#039;t, we can just cancel IDL!&nbsp; Because the less cowardly good players also don&#039;t want to play in a league of nobodies.&nbsp; Of course, I will also sign up and encourage people to play, but I am an aliaser and nobody knows who I am, so my presence doesn&#039;t carry much weight.<br /><br />One reason why I&#039;m saying all of this is because this strategy won&#039;t work.&nbsp; It&#039;s not going to be like last season.&nbsp; We&#039;re all going to sign up or confirm our invites, then there will be a deadline.&nbsp; After the deadline, [b]no new players will be accepted[/b].&nbsp; Well after this we will announce how many teams there will be, who the captains are, and what the draft order is.&nbsp; Well after that we will have a draft.&nbsp; Chewy won&#039;t sign up the day of the draft, and Blair won&#039;t sign up during the draft.&nbsp; I sincerely hope both of them sign up for this season, as they are both incredible players, but they&#039;ll have to do it when everyone else does.&nbsp; This means that if Chewy confirms his invite 2 minutes before the deadline, you won&#039;t have time to confirm your own (based on his confirmation) before the deadline.&nbsp; Of course, I expect we will be lenient with the precise minute of the deadline (by several hours in fact, but not by several weeks).&nbsp; By the time we all wake up and look at the list, it will be over.&nbsp; Of course, because everybody is playing this game, he&#039;s not going to sign up in the first place, so neither will you.