Ok for all of you who dont know the situation (Im referring specifically to the loud obnoxious ones) I will enlighten you.<br /><br />Hatred you make it seem like this is some professional league. No one gets paid to play this. No one is compelled to spend their time writing the most bullet proof rules page. I dont see why anyone would expect that.<br /><br />And before any of you claim favoritism or conspiracy let me explain how I know these things. I have been in IDL for 7 seasons now and every season I come up with some brilliant scheme to bend the rules of IDL in my favor. When I find a loophole, instead of rewarding my efforts the IDL board just says &quot;Thanks Nostar, we will fix that and no you cant do _______ that is completely legal under the current rules.&quot; It turns out that the way the rules page usually works is that when stuff like this comes up they write it into the rules. For instance, last season I wanted to pick the same map as Ralphis for home field. Nothing in the rules prohibited it but when I brought it up I was simply told no and that they would amend the rules for future seasons. And that is how it should be. Ladna shouldnt have to sit around all day thinking of every way some jerk can screw IDL and then rule against it. Its smarter to just wait until they try to and then tells them no.<br /><br />For the record, the precedent has been set through seasons of repetition that the team having all of their players on at game time gets to decide what happens going forward. Regular season forfeits have happened and it has been up to the non-offending team whether or not to take the forfeit or reschedule. I dont know why the Playoffs would differ in this regard. One of the reasons we dont have a ton of forfeiture language in the rules is because generally it is taken care of privately, instead of referring to the rules.<br /><br />Now that the &quot;rules dont cover that&quot; section is over let me address the &quot;forfeits in the playoffs are lame&quot; issue. I completely agree. I tried from Thursday afternoon until Sunday night to get our game played. I was on each evening, with my team ready to play for at least 2 hours each night, often 4-5 hours. When I finally found (2) times that we could all be on I got the following answers:<br /><br />[list]<br />[li]MadV left to sleep[/li]<br />[li]Whiteboy wants to go out drinking[/li]<br />[li]MadV is hanging out with his girlfriend[/li]<br />[li]Tai has tickets to a Celtics game[/li]<br />[/list]<br /><br />And I think that ALL of these excuses are good ones to not play doom. I would choose to do any of them except maybe sleep.&nbsp; But please consider&nbsp; why should I rearrange my schedule ANOTHER week to be online to play KGB when they wouldnt do the same? And if you can find a should then try to figure out why I would.<br /><br />The reality is that this precedent NEEDS to be set for two major reasons. First and foremost disallowing playoff forfeiture lends itself directly to abuse. Say next week BBC and BSK schedule for Sunday at 10pm. All the players on online at 9:50 Sunday night and they go to a server and Stallion AND Xenaero have +150ms pings. Why would they not just quit IDE/ IRC and force a reschedule? If there are no playoff forfeits this is a viable strategy. Other scenarios include delaying for additional practice time or possibly to push another team into scheduling conflicts.&nbsp; Write your own narrative for those. <br /><br />Okay next point, Rus is cap Nostar isnt. I completely agree! But when you play with me, in priv or in IDL you will undoubtedly notice that I am not only extremely smart and talented but Im also a pretty big dick about those traits. The reason for this is because most of you are idiots and suffering you has turned me sour as a lime. I dont care about your opinions or ideas, I dont like you and I dont want you to like me. I want to beat you and make you cry. That being said, when you are on a team with me I expect you to realize I am one of the best players and treat me as such. Rus does and in that vein he has asked me how I feel about this situation and I gave him my opinion. Rus can feel free to play KGB this week. I would play with him and whoever else. People who say I am captain are commenting on my leadership skills (and Im flattered). But when you ask who made the decision to play noob and not turska, or who decided to trade his draft picks, who gets on vent and directs the game, you will find that I am less the captain of TKV and more a loud advocate with a great resume and awesome hair. I do schedule our games, if only because I am more active than Rus and I know everyones availability. I actually hate being the scheduler and it only happens because I feel sorry for Ralphis AND I dont want to be penalized because Rus is a DICK. I agree the rules say I cant, but if you were in Ralphs shoes you would take what you can get, especially if its from the most successful IDL player/captain of all time. <br /><br />And lastly, in response to Stallion:<br />[quote author=ItalianStallion link=topic=410.msg3736#msg3736 date=1300128757]All Im saying is, for the god damn 100th time.&nbsp; Why not reschedule it, ITS ALREADY BEEN DONE BEFORE MULTIPLE TIMES. [/quote]<br /><br />Because we dont have to. Do you need something else?