[quote=&quot;mikehail&quot;]The more I think about parity, the more I think it isn&#039;t a good goal for the league.&nbsp; The more you approach parity, the more random the results of games are, which some may say is good, but also reduces the amount of upsets which take place in the league, simply by virtue of what parity means.&nbsp; Nobody will ever remember how KNF beat BSK on a map nobody believed in us on (not even nostar I think, and he is pretty believing in me).&nbsp; Is this really a good thing?&nbsp; I am not convinced it is for a few reasons:[/quote]<br /><br />I completely disagree with this entirely. I can&#039;t believe I&#039;m saying this but I actually agree with Fast on this one mostly. But you point out that parity is bad and all I can say is, look at Winter 2011, the season KNF beat BSK. That was one of the most balanced seasons we&#039;ve had I think. Most teams were capable of beating anybody on any given match. You had closer matches in the regular season and post-season. So in terms of specific examples, we had the most exciting post-season we&#039;ve had in quite some time that season. I think only one round was decided in 2 games? We actually had two matches go into extra rounds that season, too. Were there any &quot;real upsets?&quot; It depends. I would have definitely not picked BSK to beat BBC on map04 but they did, but I&#039;m not sure it&#039;s an &quot;upset.&quot; <br /><br />Generally, I see upsets as being very bad teams beating very good teams - not the play-off team not favored to win coming through. There are examples of worse-off playoff teams making some noise but regardless of what you have, parity or not, those tend to be rare. And usually the upsets occur because somebody totally botches on a homefield map (see SUC on map01 this past season; and in terms of record, DMR over TKV). Still, it&#039;s all debatable, that&#039;s for sure.&nbsp; <br /><br />Like I&#039;ve said for two years now, it&#039;s a matter of talent plain and simple. I could have been better off drafting Collision over Mobius if I was willing to take the chance of drafting somebody who is notorious for not showing up. I didn&#039;t and that pretty much cost me my season. But even if I did pick Collision, somebody was going to be in that position to make the decision I had to and come out with the short end of the stick. It&#039;s going to happen, it&#039;s totally inevitable. There will be bad teams and there will be good teams, I&#039;m not arguing that. As I said, I just prefer to have more depth in the draft and not have to take risks like that. If I do, I do - so be it. I think you&#039;re just being difficult for the sake of it here, Mike. I mean, you&#039;d rather be on a team with you Strangle and Collision rather than be on a team with Nostar and Midian? That&#039;s crazy talk! I still love you though. 