[quote author=Xenaero link=topic=134.msg1090#msg1090 date=1252416302]<br />This is the polar opposite of how Doom maps are laid out. Not one is the same, requiring drastically different play and strategy in comparison. Can you imagine if this was true with each and every sports stadium? There&#039;d be so much complaining about that system being slanted it would be ridiculous, and as far as sports tend to go with rules and regulations, it&#039;d likely be &quot;one game here, one game there, tiebreaker here&quot; sort of thing.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />I definitely agree with Xenaero here, the idea of &quot;homefields&quot; in other sports is nothing like the idea of &quot;homefields&quot; in IDL.&nbsp; Yeah I know there&#039;s differences like weather/climate, field dimensions (what the fuck MLB....) flooring/turf, and I certainly don&#039;t mean to trivialize those differences; look at home/away percentages and you can tell they&#039;re significant.&nbsp; But no one changes where the goddamn goal is.&nbsp; No one puts a huge fucking pit in a different spot.&nbsp; I don&#039;t even know what to compare spawn points &amp; weapon spawns to... jump/face-off/kick-off?&nbsp; Map selection is huge, case closed.&nbsp; It&#039;s the reason teams fight for that advantage during the regular season.&nbsp; On the other hand teams can easily practice homefields.&nbsp; There&#039;s only 3 potential homefields you&#039;ll ever have to play on, and you know them way before the playoffs start.&nbsp; So in that respect it&#039;s not nearly as bad as sports homefields.<br /><br />Now Ralphis pointed out that there&#039;s quite a few notable upsets.&nbsp; But I think he didn&#039;t really say enough about that.&nbsp; Upsets are fucking awesome!&nbsp; When VGR upset PAK it was HUGE.&nbsp; Like, the universe almost exploded huge.&nbsp; Whenever I&#039;m thinking about some of the stuff that makes IDL unfair, I think of how teams have overcome that unfairness and created some epic moments.&nbsp; Yeah, on paper it seems dumb, and it keeps IDL from being some mathematical equation that reduces down to the best team, but it&#039;s just more exciting this way.<br /><br />In fact, when I take Ralphis&#039; post into consideration, I personally don&#039;t see homefield as oppressive.&nbsp; Maybe the sample set isn&#039;t large enough to show a definitive trend.&nbsp; I think that if enough players/captains saw it as a ridiculous advantage the board would take action (something like a homefield pool or Tai&#039;s idea), but I haven&#039;t heard that yet.&nbsp; Maybe I&#039;ll put a poll up or something... or someone else could do it ;) .&nbsp; Also I&#039;ll just say that functionally speaking, the playoff map pool would probably be between 3-5 maps, which is greater than or equal to the number of maps that teams aspiring to the playoffs would have to practice.&nbsp; The only thing it might resolve is a team&#039;s advantage/disadvantage on 1 map, but there&#039;s a chance that, say, you&#039;ll play SUC on map08 anyway.&nbsp; In some cases I suppose that&#039;s good, because then you can choose to not waste time practicing that map.&nbsp; However, giving away a round before you even start seems pretty tough - and mixed in with 3/5... we&#039;re talking about a lot of maps.<br /><br />[quote author=Nostar]Hey do signups, it&#039;ll be GRRRRRRRRRRRR8![/quote]<br /><br />I love the idea of a CTF tourney.&nbsp; IDL isn&#039;t one though.&nbsp; I&#039;ll be happy to setup site stuff for it if someone wants to do it.<br /><br />[quote]Outlaw trading!&nbsp; Fuck Nero/SUC/Tenchu/Donut blahblahblah![/quote]<br /><br />Trading is awesome and great.&nbsp; The only problem with it is that players take it personally - not that I blame them.&nbsp; Even if we outlaw trading, we can&#039;t keep captains from failing.&nbsp; If it&#039;s not a bad trade, it&#039;ll be something else (bad draft, bad strategy, no practicing, no communication, etc. etc. etc.).<br /><br />[quote]Even if we do 3/5, we should leave reg. season matches the way they are.[/quote]<br /><br />I dislike changing rules between regular season &amp; playoffs - even though there are already some differences (tie breaks, homefields).&nbsp; Strategy is quite different from 2/3 to 3/5.&nbsp; And now that I&#039;m thinking about it, if we keep the same tie break rules, 3/5 games could become serious grinds.&nbsp; I mean, right now playoff games are first team to 2 rounds.&nbsp; First team to 3 could be a lot of rounds, placing a greater emphasis on endurance.&nbsp; ...Maaaaaaaybe the board would institute a continuance rule where we limit the number of rounds to 6 or something, but still it seems ridiculous.<br /><br />[quote]OVERTIME?!?! Who runs these POS servers?[/quote]<br /><br />I have to say I don&#039;t hate overtime.&nbsp; It might make games more offensive.&nbsp; Ties are lame anyway.