The less interesting other side to this banter is that the IDC sucks ass and needs new captains regardless of who goes to the playoffs and who doesn&#039;t. Doomguy and Xen and Tai are shit captains and since I&#039;m the resident forum jerk I&#039;ll make it clear for all of you. Do not mistake my intention here. I&#039;m [b]NOT [/b]saying that they suck. They&#039;re all substantial players and will enhance the teams they land on assuming they continue to play. But the IDC has been a train wreck since the franchise era started and needs a serious overhaul to be anything even remotely interesting like the WDC is. Additionally I would like to say that the reason the WDC is competitive right now is a result of Cha0tix being invited late into the league and actively participating. We are a league of players and we should do more to encourage good players to not only stick around, but also participate.<br /><br />I have my opinions as to why the IDC is so shitty and I&#039;ll share them with you, like it or not! <br /><br />I think Xen, while a good player, is an abominable captain. He has bad ideas about different ways maps need to be approached and even worse ones about team building in a draft environment. I think Xen could be a preeminent defensive force on our league, it&#039;s just he has only drafted a good runner once in his entire captaincy (saber &lt;!&gt;).<br /><br />Tai is just a gun turret in my experience. If you force him into moving from his designated area he gets lost and starts running a flag for some reason. That is to say he&#039;s super dumb (and super lovable!) but that doesn&#039;t make up for the fact that he&#039;s bombing this season with 2 of the most effective runners our league has. He doesn&#039;t really practice and he&#039;s not around all that much and he&#039;s not that smart to offset those things (see Ladna&#039;s absence and seeming success). These are all bad captain traits. I&#039;d rather see people like Ladna and miek captain, who while handicapped by their respective situations, value coordinated ideas&nbsp; over the traditional 1o 1mid 1d retardation Tai seems to approach his games with.<br /><br />DG has had some weirdness happen, I know. However I didn&#039;t see his team going anywhere unless Dragan either cheated or cheated. Jen isn&#039;t a franchise, even though he likes to think he&#039;s the best player ever or whatever, this is empirically not the case. He&#039;s a good 3rd in this port and putting him in the &quot;team carrying&quot; role was a little shortsighted by Doomguy. Then, in addition to getting a weak franchise, he drafted Dragan who while sucking also isn&#039;t around much. I will say that KB was a total godsend and has made that team slightly better than SNAX. For having 3rd pick in the draft this is not a good reelection bid. <br /><br />Now I know that there aren&#039;t exactly a million volunteers for vacant captaincies. It is true that the league isn&#039;t that good at trying to find ways to make captaining appealing, or even playing at this point! I know that Ladna has found captaining a complete chore this season and rightly so. It fucking sucks. If there was a good system for administration it might lessen to awfulness that is any responsible role in IDL.<br /><br />That being said, I know of several major bulwarks of this community that are seriously considering not playing next season (for a variety of reasons) not the least of which is that IDL has lost a lot of the drama that made it fun. The IDL used to be that we all got on Sunday night to troll Tai and ctf. That was extremely fun and made the community seem worthwhile. Now it seems overly formal, faceless and impersonal. While there are not really any concrete ways to change this I am sure all of us have some ideas about how to make this a more fun league. Lets pitch in some. <br /><br />Server variety finally got some legs this week and maybe that will encourage people to put up their ideas to our useless and impotent administration. Who knows. <br /><br />The conclusion I am getting to is that the IDC sucks and has sucked for a while. Time to usher in some new captains and let Tai and Xen and Doomguy get back to frag-whoring on some smarter persons team. On the other hand...Yay SUC is a shoe in for the Masterbowl....AGAIN!<br /><br />Oh, and I think FLS, SPE and SUC are going to win. The only game I would consider worth watching is BSK v FLS. GL HF!