Personally, my IDL experience was about 5% CTF and 95% dealing with crap.&nbsp; I can play DooM all day, I&#039;ve done it, I&#039;ve done it for several days in a row and I know other players who have done it too.&nbsp; I don&#039;t really get burnt out playing the game, I get burnt out dealing with one gay thing after another... and I wasn&#039;t even a captain!<br /><br />[quote]<br />While the winter season collides with school near the later parts, the summer season deprives some competitors of outdoor time.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Maybe I never go outside, but I just don&#039;t buy this.&nbsp; To be in the IDL, you have to be reachable (e-mail works pretty well, actually, but I don&#039;t think anyone uses it) and in #IDL for a total of 1 hour a week.&nbsp; Is that [b]really[/b] too much to ask?&nbsp; If it is, I suggest not signing up.&nbsp; EVERY SINGLE scheduling fuck up was either:<br />[list]<br />[li]a captain not showing[/li]<br />[li]a captain trying not to play without his best roster... which included an unreliable player[/li]<br />[/list]<br /><br />I mean goddammit, if you sign up for IDL, tell your captain when you can play, and get on then.&nbsp; If your captain wants to practice and you can&#039;t make it, say so.&nbsp; Your captain might trade you, but that&#039;s the way it goes.&nbsp; People aren&#039;t burnt out on CTF, they&#039;re burnt out dealing with fuck ups all the time.<br /><br />I&#039;m pretty sure this is why a lot of clan games have been played lately.&nbsp; Clans usually have &gt; 4 people, and if a couple of people aren&#039;t on, it doesn&#039;t make a difference.&nbsp; Sure, a lot of this is that there&#039;s no consequences for losing, so roster isn&#039;t critical... I&#039;m just saying it&#039;s evidence that people aren&#039;t tired of the game, they&#039;re tired of all the junk they have to go through to play a lousy 30-45 minutes of IDL CTF.<br /><br />It really irritates me (I don&#039;t know why though, I&#039;m not in the playoffs) that only 1 Wildcard game has been played, and we&#039;re in the middle of the Conference week.&nbsp; I understand that people get sick, jobs get lost (or found), vacations are taken, lungs collapse, computers break, etc. etc. etc.&nbsp; But we have this shiny new technology called a FORUM where you can make a POST about not being around (granted it&#039;s not always possible).&nbsp; I get the feeling that players view the whole thing as &quot;just a game&quot;, but when we sign up to be drafted onto a team (or especially if you sign up to be a captain), we make a commitment to our teammates and the league.&nbsp; The least we can do when we skip out on it is let someone know, so people aren&#039;t left hanging.<br /><br />[quote]<br />(Name one major league that has more than one series/game meant to determine a sole champion per year)<br />[/quote]<br />The PGA&nbsp; ;D !&nbsp; Or tennis or pool or bowling... tournament-based leagues.