[quote author=Ralphis link=topic=515.msg4994#msg4994 date=1318518977]<br />Issues like these are of the least importance to the league&#039;s overall well being but will always bring about the most discussion because they are easily accessible to anyone that can turn wake up and breathe in the morning.<br />[/quote]<br />i actually threw it out here to a public discussion, because i was sick of it the second day star/mass kept bringing it up while we still hadn&#039;t resolved critically important issues (new maps).<br /><br />the old idl had stupid custom names. ecdl had stupid custom names. zect had stupid custom names. every official zdaemon team tournament ever had ridiculous, painfully retarded names. sicl... eh, you get my point. history has proven team names lead to idiocy, with exactly zero exceptions, so i don&#039;t share star&#039;s and mass&#039; confidence we&#039;d be able to censor them all the way to awesomeness. no matter how sarcastic mass&#039; responses are becoming.<br /><br />[quote author=Mass]<br />I just think freedom is more important than cosmetics, for this league anyway.<br />[/quote]<br />but custom team names [b]are[/b] cosmetics. you surely can&#039;t possibly argue they add towards ingame performance, can you? i didn&#039;t feel elevated by my freedom to name a team in ecdl or zect, i actually felt awkward having to come up with an obligatory cool name/clever pun and then suffer the results of the other caps doing the same. i didn&#039;t even know what the other abbreviations meant and i didn&#039;t care, the names amounted to nothing and were doomed to disappear in a few weeks.<br /><br />[quote author=Mass]<br />So [b]you&#039;re[/b] only argument here is that it&#039;s confusing?&nbsp; You can&#039;t remember allll thooose namees!&nbsp;  [b]Hwo to spel![/b]&nbsp; Gaarg! 1<br />[/quote]<br />oh, the irony! it burnssssssssss...<br /><br />[quote author=Mass]<br />Actually, I think it is more confusing to call Clim&#039;s team last season BSK after calling Jen&#039;s team BSK the season before.&nbsp; Let me ask you a question: was BSK a successful team?&nbsp; There&#039;s no answer because the name refers to many different teams!&nbsp; Was SNAX a successful team? No!&nbsp; I know this because I know who we&#039;re talking about.&nbsp; I&#039;d rather have one name for each team than twelve names for a hundred teams--THAT is confusing.<br />[/quote]<br />i&#039;m not so sure about that. you&#039;ll get lost in the custom names pretty soon while &quot;clim&#039;s BSK&quot; vs &quot;jen&#039;s BSK&quot; or &quot;xen&#039;s final EBL season&quot; are quite descriptive. it happens in sports anyways - is edmonton oilers a successful team? it certainly doesn&#039;t look so now, but they used to have gretzky&amp;co...<br /><br />i&#039;d love to see a compromise achieved. bones has cooked up a proposition like that, maybe when he feels like it, he could post it here. with players i respect actually [i]voicing[/i] they don&#039;t want custom names, i feel less moved by the numbers in polls.