I don&#039;t care about the BYE week at all. I do think that map voting will put more standard maps into the rotation, which while possibly attractive to newer players, seems like a boring idea to me. I feel like map voting needs to be setup so the league allows 50% of the maps to be picked and 50% to be new each season. Or some such system to ensure newer maps.<br /><br />A diminishing player pool, as Ralph has pointed out, isn&#039;t the best way to describe it. It&#039;s a stagnant pool if anything. We have a couple shakeups here and there but the last few seasons we&#039;ve had roughly the same amount of players. I do agree that we need more people and that one way to get people to play in IDL is to invite them to play in priv. I personally play priv because it&#039;s organized, not necessarily for the talent of the players. New players don&#039;t bother me so much as jerks who aren&#039;t any good (regardless of their tenure). For instance, I trash Beast for not being any good too and he&#039;s been around longer than me. Of the people I trash, Mistopher comes to mind as the most egregious and he&#039;s a complete douchebag without any redeeming value.<br /><br />[quote author=dew link=topic=178.msg1565#msg1565 date=1267152271]<br />on the other hand, i&#039;m not signing up for another season like this one, because i&#039;m not willing to be treated like a retarded child that only gets played when it&#039;s 1000000:0. i&#039;d rather be on a constantly losing team than benchwarming for the leader even in week8.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Dewww, I don&#039;t begrudge you being mad about not seeing a lot of playing time. I don&#039;t know if you get treated like a retard really, that seems like an exaggeration, but it&#039;s tough to play you because of your ping and bad packetloss to TT. In the same way that in ECDL I played in 1 game (actually 1 round) for LAG and didn&#039;t have a problem with it. I was on the best team and knew how it worked. While I think IDL accepts foreign players far better than Europe tends to (see zd forums) I also think that we recognize the uses of such players.<br /><br />[quote author=dew link=topic=178.msg1565#msg1565 date=1267152271]<br />euros are the comedy relief factor for you<br />[/quote]<br /><br />I have no idea what that means. Nero is capping like crazy on BBC and Gyross was drafted...2nd overall I think and rocked the shit out of KGB on map03. If I remember right Rose is even on one of the frag stat top 10 lists. Comic relief comments would put you in the naive category, regardless of your mastery of mathematics.<br /><br />I encouraged many euros to signup for IDL because I think they&#039;re better and more interested than players like Legion and Mistopher and (name some other new guys), who, while being around, have not improved substantially in a reasonable amount of time. From a strictly pragmatic view I find that playing well is as important as showing up as far as success of a team goes. League wide it&#039;s probably a little more on the showing up side but not that much. If anyone endorses and encourages Euro participation it has been SUC, the only team in IDL to field 2 active euros and a winning record. <br /><br />By the numbers you&#039;ve played in half the games we&#039;ve played. We bombed Week 3 through no fault of yours, we did well week 4 without Ralph against a top team and Week 6 sucked ass and should be wiped from the pages, though you would have played regardless. I also recall us wanting to play you week 1 and 7 but you disliked the maps (which I totally get, they were bad for pingers mostly). This is all to say that you&#039;re being a little over dramatic and need to put into perspective how much Gyross and Mortal and Nero have played in IDL and how much you have. It&#039;s just part of playing in overseas leagues.