I have been waiting for a thread like this for, quite literally, my entire life.<br /><br />[list]<br />[*][size=4]The Board[/size]<br />You know what? It would be unfair to single out &quot;the board&quot; for the shitstorm we&#039;re in, as they do not represent the management of IDL as a whole, so I&#039;m gonna go ahead and reclassify this:<br /><br />[*][size=4]The IDL Administration[/size]<br />(sorry bones)<br /><br />The IDL Administration, consisting of the board: Dew, Nostar, Xenaero, Mikehail, with MassVC at the helm. Pinned with this group is the commissioner of the IDL this season, HumanBones. Now, most of the board topics and discussions are kept in obscurity unless inquired by a player or anyone else, so it&#039;s quite hard to pin shortcomings of this season on any particular member of the administration. However, the failure of this season is clear and absolute.<br /><br />First off, I&#039;d like to start with the attitude of members of the board. I hate to generalize, but I feel as if every member of the board acts similarly, so it&#039;s an easy thing for me to do. [b]Members of the board routinely display pompous attitudes, as well as demonstrate corruption, collusion, obstruct fair play, obstruct IDL team organized efforts, break written rules (and are immune to their actions),[/b] and that&#039;s just from this season. We, as a player-base, do not want our administration to be complete retards in between long and well drawn out forum posts. This sort of activity from the people who run the league will ultimately hurt the league&#039;s image, as well as drive away any worthwhile players from ever returning. The wound is large and bleeding, and it may be too late to stop it.<br /><br />This is about as general as I can get before I start listing names and incidents.<br /><br />You could come back at me by saying I&#039;m an ungrateful good-for-nothing Mexican bastard. However, the league likely would still be run if Ladna never painstakingly put countless hours into the site, or if the boof conglomerate never ran TT for as long as they did. A lot of people think contributing your skills and money in this way should grant you immunity from everything, from smug attitude to draft fixing. I don&#039;t. To each their own. I do, however, appreciate their patronage and I&#039;m sure everyone in the community agrees with me. (Unless you hate TT or if you&#039;re Mormon and hate technology all-together.)<br /><br />[*][size=4]The Schedule[/size]<br /><br />The schedule was, simply put, a train wreck from the get-go. Sure, Bones may have came up with the map list, but the board had to vote on it. No matter how it came into fruition, we got the end result: a crappy schedule.<br /><br />Now, maps are as much as a personal preference as your favorite type of pie, but if that is the case, there seems to be a consensus among IDL players concerning the crappiness of the schedule. Since I can&#039;t speak for everyone, I&#039;ll just speak for myself!<br /><br />[b]Week 2 - SMART01: Lazarus Revisited[/b]<br />This map is monstrous. The standoffs on this map usually last for a good 2-3 minutes. Also, the weapon and spawn placement could use work. Pretty much every spawn can be camped and the weapon placement is seemingly random concerning the weapon you get when you spawn in mid, compared to when you spawn in your own base.<br /><br />[b]Week 5 - ZDCTF08: Something Epic[/b]<br />this map is a dead horse and plays like one.<br /><br />[b]Week 6 - ZDCTF02: Refineries[/b]<br />Really? MAP02?<br /><br />[b]Week 8 - ZDCTF09: Frozen[/b]<br />Too big, has BFG.<br /><br />[b]Week 9 - ZDU34: Not Kansas[/b]<br />When you&#039;d rather sacrifice your unborn first son than play this map, something is terribly wrong.<br /><br />[*][size=4]idl2012.wad[/size]<br />Perhaps even the biggest controversy happened before the season ever begun. Ralphis, as a captain and nothing more, prepared idl2012.wad and its release candidates. Ralph put painstaking work into ironing out the kinks in every single one of these maps, while adding every single Masterbowl map to the WAD, as a nice touch. There were, however, changes that the IDL Administration believed were required to be changed, [b]despite overwhelming public opinion.[/b] I put emphasis in that because it cannot be emphasized enough. The IDL Administration SHOULD cater to the interests of THE PEOPLE, NOT THEMSELVES. Ralphis changed the MAP32 textures, which, being a map on the schedule, is a pretty big deal. The horrendous, ugly, distracting texturing was replaced with a much more pleasant palette that represented the Doom theme very well. The IDL Administration, however, believed they were being undermined. And being undermined as an administration is much more important than public opinion, or so it seemed. The entire final wad was scrapped, replaced with an older revision [b]that was not thoroughly examined, and, to this day, contains errors on various maps, such as the HOM basement in MAP04. A problem that was fixed in Ralph&#039;s idl2012.wad.[/b]<br /><br />I really cannot think of an excuse for the IDL Administration for this, as it was extremely selfish, and the decision was made in haste. No factors, not even the interest of the public, were considered in this decision. The IDL Administration believes they have been undermined, and action must be taken to prove they control every aspect of the league. No exceptions. I&#039;m actually going to end this post on that note, because it&#039;s the masterstroke of hypocrisy by design. The day when the league no longer seeks after the interests of the players, that is the day the league dies. That check has been cashed.<br />[/list]