[quote author=Fastidious link=topic=134.msg1072#msg1072 date=1251617891]<br />If you recall every single SPE vs SPE 2v2 practice we played, the team I was on always won.&nbsp;  8)<br />[/quote]<br /><br />You are a 2v2 god I guess. Up there with the likes of Ninjadog and Caboose. But at this point I can&#039;t see how that has bearing here. And if your point was to imply you were the best person on yr team, I would say that is highly debatable.<br /><br />[quote]<br />Hardly, that trade cemented SUC into another championship and doomed SPE to failure.<br />[/quote]<br /><br />Idk really, I mean Suc was undefeated before week4 and continued to be after and we played without pot one week and without me for a week and really didn&#039;t practice that much until I quit my job late in August. I don&#039;t really see this season going a different way whether or not the mortal/kist trade happened. I mean the only team that could have beaten us ran into some scheduling problems and SPE had no chance with you/kist or without you both. As I said, many things previous to that trade with SUC made SPE a weaker team.<br /><br />In addition to all that I think players who don&#039;t captain relinquish their rights to make captaining decisions. Just like people who don&#039;t have medical licenses shouldn&#039;t practice medicine. They didn&#039;t sign up for it and aren&#039;t board approved as captains.<br /><br />[quote]Look at the season results, wow.[/quote]<br /><br />As I said, I can&#039;t really see anything different happening with or without that trade. Kist is a great player, but so is Mortal and so is Gyrossman. We had a good team anyway, as evidenced by our season starting win streak.<br /><br />[quote] What does that have to do with anything?&nbsp; Obviously it wasn&#039;t the best team that year.[/quote]<br /><br />No actually I maintain that was the best team in IDL history. And I&#039;m not kissing ass or anything, but that start, including Shakal as a backup (whether he was willing to play or not) is probably the most talent a single IDL team has ever seen. Even with White being kind of inactive it&#039;s surprising to me that DMR didn&#039;t win that season.<br /><br />[quote]JKist never gave SPE what he gave SUC[/quote]<br /><br />Okay I don&#039;t know what you think Kist gave SUC that he didn&#039;t give SPE. Do you think he gave us massages before the game or bought steroids for us? I watched the first few weeks of SPE games and Kist was a good and effective player on that team. Probably as much as he was on SUC with how little we practiced. Now I think you guys needed more defense, which in general is not what I have Kist playing. As biased as I might be, I didn&#039;t see Kist playing any better or worse on SUC than on SPE. Anyone who knows him knows that he is ridiculously competitive. And in a league setting I can&#039;t see him giving less than his full ability. The fact that you guys didn&#039;t really succeed I wouldn&#039;t put on him. He just has a much bigger say in what happens in SUC imo.<br /><br />I want to comment on this as well, .&nbsp; If you look at the demos it is obvious.&nbsp; I don&#039;t think he does it on purpose but he cares a lot more about an all NS team.<br /><br />[quote]No American player should have to be on a team with 3 EU players in a league based over here.&nbsp; It&#039;s unfair, and pure hell on practicing and scheduling.&nbsp; Fuck that.&nbsp; There should be a 1 EU player limit per team.[/quote]<br /><br />Potent played the first half of his season with euros, successfully.<br /><br />[quote]You act as if captains are dictators over players, they are not.&nbsp; To think so is naive and stupid and bad for the league.&nbsp; I intentially sat out matches for RNB to let Gax play.&nbsp; I let White run despite perferring to do so myself.&nbsp; A captain has to put his team first, if you know your players are unhappy with a possible decision then you don&#039;t have to make it.&nbsp; There is usually another option.&nbsp; I think it&#039;s good players occasionally punish captains who take them for granted.&nbsp; This is a competitive league for fun, no one is getting paid to play.[/quote] <br /><br />You were a good captain for the players you had on RNB. However you suck as a player because you&#039;re an arrogant prick. That is another reason I think Nero made a mistake in franchising you and another reason I don&#039;t mind never seeing you in priv or in IDL for that matter.<br /><br />[quote]24?&nbsp; That&#039;d be horrible, probably the death of the league.&nbsp; For instance 41 signed up this season.&nbsp; Frankly in the past few seasons private activity has been extremely slow compared to past seasons.&nbsp; Season 2 or 3 was probably the high.&nbsp; I remember playing hours of private a day some weeks.[/quote]<br /><br />After saying I don&#039;t mind never seeing you in the league, you should totally sign up. I mean if you&#039;re thinking the league is losing players, the first thing you can do is continue to support it with your ideas (check!) and play (not so check!) I will say I would give way more of a shit about what you&#039;re saying regarding SPE&#039;s season if you had played more than 3 games for them. As I see it they could have made the playoffs and been competitive with some creative captaining. You are the sole reason I would call SPE&#039;s season a dud.<br /><br />[quote]Bah, Ralphis has done more for the league than anyone.[/quote]<br /><br />Ladna is up there too I think. I&#039;ve actively watched him put a ridiculous amount of effort and thought into making the league better. Also Ralphis I know what happened, I just like to blame you for things.