Now that week 9 is around the corner and the playoff picture is more or less complete, aside from the WDC East, let us all now take a moment and reflect on why this season was so fucking bad. Remember, this isn&#039;t the ZDaemon Forums where you have nazis running around deleting and censoring posts and &#039;accidentally&#039; deleting topics. Our nazis will probably only edit posts and often times those posts are mainly Jenova&#039;s. So let&#039;s go over some core issues that have pissed off people this season.<br /><br />*The Board<br />*Lackluster and bad maps<br />*Players&#039; needs and wants falling on deaf ears<br />*Board members being complete dipshits on par with zd admins/staff<br />*Rules being changed mid-season<br />*Total Trash<br />*Players nearly sneaking away with demo infractions<br />*1000 versions of idl2012.wad<br />*Map32<br />*The Board<br />*Humanbones (lol&nbsp; :P)<br /><br />This might be the last season for a lot of players and it may even be the last season of the IDL depending on certain factors (nutshell: some[s]one[/s] masochist who wants to clean up this mess). Therefore it&#039;s in the best interest of everyone to speak up and share what is on their minds. For those of you who are hesitant to say anything, here are a few key factors to consider:<br /><br />1. All the above points are the board&#039;s fault<br />2. They have no feelings and are heartless fucks<br />3. Offensive statements won&#039;t affect them<br />4. They deserve it<br /><br />Since I have bitched so much this season I&#039;m rather worn out at this point. So, I won&#039;t go into many details with my personal reasons unless necessary. Let&#039;s get started!<br /><br />Right off the bat it is clear that this season&#039;s schedule was so fucking lackluster and painful. Weeks 1-4 were pretty tough to play through but it could have been worse. In fact we have seen how much worse it could have been with weeks 5-9. First you have 3 old ass shitty zd maps, which no one wants to play, that belong in pub and next week we get optically raped. Of course the reason why we will get raped is because 4/5 of the board said so. This brings us to the next point of players getting shit on by the board. Xenaero made a topic polling players what they preferred: map28 2 or 6 spawns, map32 original or Ralphis&#039; textures. Even though the poll results favored 2 spawn 28 and Ralphis&#039; textures, we got 6 spawns and mspaint textures. Yes I&#039;ve heard the argument about how the poll only had a small amount of participants which in no way reflects the majority of the IDL. However if you douchebags were as smart as you claim you are, you would have realized that you were never going to get a majority opinion no matter what. So what were you guys trying to do? Piss us off by making us believe our views mattered? Because you sure did!<br /><br />Interestingly enough Ralphis, who is nothing more than a captain officially, made an idl wad that contained what the players wanted. Plus, his wad didn&#039;t destroy map04 and it was the first version to include past MasterBowl maps (mb01-10). Of course, this wad contained changes that the board didn&#039;t vote in favor of and thus his wad lives on only in AlexMax&#039;s hd as idl2012-.wad. Why was this wad shunned? Well, originally Ralph was told to include the infamous &#039;Pissed off Libraries&#039; map and then some time later he was told to remove it in favor of that shitty proctf map no one wants to play and he was also instructed to make the map28 and 32 changes. Also it&#039;s worth mentioning that the proctf map (which doesn&#039;t work on zd at all in its original state) was properly play tested on Skulltag! rofl, I guess we could play test some ZDoom Wars map and it&#039;ll be IDL ready! The removal of map07 and map30 and possibly map32 of the 2011 wad was also dumb. I personally don&#039;t give a shit about old 32, but 07 and 30 were [u]good for the IDL[/u]. However tried and true maps like those two were [u]removed[/u] for jokes like that shitty Christmas map and the stupid rad suit/hidden sphere map. Oh wells, let&#039;s move on.<br /><br />We have board members who choose to act like dipshits instead of carrying themselves with some sort of prestige (considering they are the ones who determine the damn rules). You have smug fuckers who disrespect captains and players by trivializing them (Ralph will chime in). You know, by pissing off your player&nbsp; base, you&#039;re definitely going to have a high retention rate! I&#039;m not talking about myself, but rather others who have stated they have no desire to play when board members want to act like dipshits (no I&#039;m not going to look for logs fuck you). I&#039;ll list a few events and I hope the players involved will chime in with more details as well as bring up their own examples.<br /><br />Jenova getting banned from TT<br /><br />Mikehail not leaving SUC&#039;s practice session<br /><br />Xenaero single-handedly destroying MAD&#039;s season (Maybe only applies to DoomGuy lol D: )<br /><br />Dew abusing rcon during a priv session and kicking Tai for no appropriate reason<br /><br />I&#039;ll elaborate a bit more on the dew matter since I was there. Dew rages because he doesn&#039;t get picked and the players who were chosen over him are labeled as shitty players by him. Dew continues to berate Tai for not picking him and calls him a shitty captain etc. Tai defends himself and gets booted out of the server. Not only is priv being stalled, but we are wasting time because deww cannot realize that, A) he&#039;s not that good, B) no one wants to play or put up with him. Yes, this is good example of how a board member should act; abuse power, hinder priv and act like a complete fucktard.<br /><br />Understand, when you guys piss us off for no reason you are inspiring us to NOT cap and to NOT sign up and to NOT play in your league. If you chase away all of the players that give a shit, you will be stuck with basically nothing. Sure there will be an influx of players from st and zd. Yeah, enjoy a league dominated by Mexicans, capo and boobear. This season was so hyped and a lot of people were looking forward to playing in it. We had new rules, new maps from the mapping contest (player involvement), new team names, new site, and a new breath of fresh air. However, the main single force behind the destruction of what this season should have been is simply: the board. You guys really and truly dropped the ball this season and you cannot deny it. Vast amounts of players are saying, &quot;This is the worst season ever&quot; or &quot;this is the last season ever&quot;. You were spoon fed an outline for arguably the best season in the history of IDL. But you blew it. You pissed off your players and if there&#039;s no more IDL after this season, it&#039;s going to be your faults. So in closing, fuck you.