This is going to be a little weird, but I&#039;m gonna try and give praise &amp; criticism from my point of view as a player, as opposed to as a server admin or board member.&nbsp; We&#039;ll see how it goes.<br /><br />[size=14pt][b]More map play-testing.[/b][/size]<br /><br />It&#039;s kind of incumbent on the admins to pick a combination of familiar and new maps, but I know there&#039;s big gaps in play-testing between the different WADs (like say, between 32in24 WADs and any ZDCTF wad)... that&#039;s not to say there aren&#039;t gems in those WADs though.&nbsp; In any case, I feel like the maps this season were really defensive (meaning easy to defend), and the admins probably would&#039;ve realized that with a little more play-testing.<br /><br />[size=14pt][b]Scheduling is better, but still sucks.[/b][/size]<br /><br />A lot of scheduling problems were completely avoided by the new scheduling system, and I think the admins deserve a lot of credit for coming up w/ the idea and Ralphis deserves a big BJ for handling it all season.&nbsp; But it still sucks.&nbsp; It amazed me how many times BSK&#039;s availability didn&#039;t even overlap a little with our opponent&#039;s, and when that happens there&#039;s almost no good solution except to harass people until they cancel something (or stop lying that they actually have something to do).<br /><br />I talked w/ Nostar about this a little bit, and I think it kind of comes down to not wanting to sign your life away to IDL.&nbsp; Like sure, I can probably get on after 7pm CST every weekday and can play almost any time on the weekend.&nbsp; Unless something comes up, then I&#039;m fucked and my team will lose (I mean, if I was a good player like Nostar).&nbsp; Furthermore, I want to get as much practice in as possible.&nbsp; So as a result, I will give exactly 2 1-hour blocks over the weekend that I know 100% I can be on for.&nbsp; If it doesn&#039;t work, Ralphis can eat my dick.<br /><br />I don&#039;t really know how the administration would deal with this sort of &quot;defensive scheduling&quot;, other than making scheduling much, much more complicated.&nbsp; I&#039;m just criticizing!&nbsp; And praising!<br /><br />[size=14pt][b]This server sucks.[/b][/size]<br /><br />Between network problems, good &#039;ol crashes and stupid lag, TT has been pretty lame for some people.&nbsp; I&#039;m kind of under the impression that this is the way it is with ZD servers, and probably the only way to do something about it is to not have the entire league depend on one machine.&nbsp; I know only having one server avoids a lot of questions about server disputes and &quot;what happens if I&#039;m pinging 400 to this server everyone else pings 18 to, but I&#039;m pinging 50 to this other server everyone pings 80 to?&quot; and so on.&nbsp; But from my point of view just having 1 server is dumb.<br /><br />[size=14pt][b]3v3 is lame.[/b][/size]<br /><br />I have 3 big criticisms of 3v3:<br /><br />[size=11pt][b]There are exactly 10 3v3 maps.&nbsp; Maybe.[/b][/size]<br />We&#039;ve gotten away with using larger maps for 3v3 like ZDCTF19 and 3413, and I think there&#039;s not really a problem with that.&nbsp; But compared to playing 4v4 on those maps... it&#039;s really hard to convince me that 3v3 is better than 4v4 on those maps.&nbsp; And moving to 4v4 opens up many more potential maps.<br /><br />[size=11pt][b]4v4 strategy is more team-oriented.[/b][/size]<br />I know that 3v3 is very team-oriented as well, but 4v4 even more so.&nbsp; Having an extra player really adds a whole different element to games.<br /><br />[size=11pt][b]Offense is easier in a 4v4.[/b][/size]<br />Sure, a team can play 3 or 4 D.&nbsp; But they&#039;ll suffer for it most times.&nbsp; It&#039;s hard for me to definitively say, but I am pretty sure that 4v4 is just more offensive than 3v3 is.<br /><br />EDIT ===<br /><br />[size=11pt][b]NS is much better at 3v3 than they are at 4v4.[/b][/size]<br />Fuck &#039;em!&nbsp; ( OK I&#039;m kidding, but still&nbsp; ;D )<br /><br />END EDIT ===<br /><br />Well I think that&#039;s all I can come up with right now.&nbsp; I have more, but it&#039;s seeeeecret.