Some good posts so far.<br /><br />[quote=&quot;chow&quot;]Me, personally I think it&#039;s run way beyond its course. Majority of us have forum accounts. The need for a cheaply elected and oft-abused board of players to represent the player base is not needed anymore. The board has been sleazy, blind, and isolated throughout the years.[/quote]<br /><br />In theory, everybody voting sounds great. The issue you will run into is the inability to stay on course for a desired result. Popular vote often becomes too scatter-brained and nothing gets done as a result. It&#039;s a sad but true dilemma the idea of democracy faces. I&#039;m not opposed, I&#039;m just not sure it will work.<br /><br />The other thing to consider is how would things be handled in such a system? Somebody would have to organize the polls, somebody would have to finalize it. Unfortunately, that&#039;s not a task 70 willing IDL participants can do. It requires a shorter list and that&#039;s one strong part of why the board is in place. <br /><br />In short, I don&#039;t believe the system is broken. I believe the people currently working in the system could do a better job, I wouldn&#039;t go as far as saying they&#039;re broken either. Just in need of a few touch-ups.<br /><br />[quote=&quot;chow&quot;]Either way, the current board has made terrible choices. From the hilariously bad map selection...[/quote]<br />&nbsp; <br />This, I agree with. The map choices weren&#039;t just bad, they were the worst map choices of any IDL season in history. Perhaps they should junk the new maps (aside from a few, new maps are usually worked in) and go back to some maps that have been played and need no introduction. <br /><br />That being said, there is still time to fix this. I do think the board we currently have is capable of providing an awesome IDL season. The new maps are just unacceptable, however. Aside from Rust&#039;s map, Coll&#039;s map and perhaps even Josh&#039;s, all of the other maps are awful. We could be replacing BPCTF, Libraries, Brickrun, and a few others with good, proven maps. <br /><br />Other than that, I can&#039;t say I have much of an issue with the board. I accept that shady deals tend to happen, and while I&#039;m not in favor of it, the sad truth is that is how a lot of ground-breaking decisions get made. So I really won&#039;t get into that too much. <br /><br />In closing, fix the maps. They&#039;re garbage.<br />