ROFL Tai, sometimes I underestimate how much you bring to IDL.<br /><br />Anyway I will make a real post instead of flaming some loser quitter. Fun as that is I do have some thoughts on bettering the league. <br /><br />I really dig the idea of best 3/5 for playoffs. Regular season 2/3 seems enough to me. Season games tend to determine who can turn it on in crunch time and really those are the people who will win a 2/3 match anyway. The only real exception I can remember is PAK and that was just Bones being a cheater so it doesn&#039;t count :)<br /><br />As to the home-field debate. I think the system is modeled after league sports (NBA at least) so it&#039;s not like it&#039;s arbitrary. It makes sense that the regular season games should mean something at the end. However, these last two seasons where my team had to sit out a week before playing probably hurt us more than anything. I think that EARNING your home-field is important, it was one of the reasons SUC played like such bitches in map27 vs DMR in season 5. We knew that if we had to play them on 04 it would have been a nightmare. A tie was good enough for us in that scenario. Concocting some home-field schema to make things more &quot;fair&quot; for the players who are worse at doom is sort of a lame idea. The IDL isn&#039;t supposed to make crappy players win, it&#039;s supposed to make good players compete. <br /><br />Saber had a suggestion that I want to take issue with though. I believe it referred to getting rid of trading all together. While I like the idea of limiting the boneheaded moves of captains, I personally think trading could be a really cool season changing feature for a lot of teams. Actually in a lot of ways it has. Just this last season I got JKist! Heh. Another notable trade was when Donut traded Midd to DPT, which I would say put them in the master bowl that season. I really think that captains and players need to look at trading less like an insult and more like a strategic play. Otherwise Saber is right, trades only happen in desperate circumstances, generally making one team stronger and another weaker. To be honest, the reasons for trading need to be adjusted. Most of the time it&#039;s that a player isn&#039;t showing up or isn&#039;t good enough, but there are a lot of instances where it&#039;s just not the right combination of players. Take KGB last season. Tai MB and Mantis barely made playoffs while Mantis Stall and MB made it to the master bowl. Really, aside from Tai&#039;s improv defense, he&#039;s one of the strongest players in IDL on a regular basis. He&#039;s toward the top in picks in priv and no one can say he doesn&#039;t have a Masterbowl under his belt. Stallion just fit better with mantis and mb. I really wish captains would think more about this stuff, it could make the league really interesting and shake things up in the future seasons. For instance I play really badly with Ralph, which isn&#039;t to say that either of us are bad players, but that we have different ideas about what getting the win is. Actually that isn&#039;t true, but it&#039;s a good example anyway.<br /><br />The only other thing I thought would be cool is something like a team tourney. I don&#039;t see why IDL can&#039;t be a host to that kind of thing too. This is where competitive doom gets played. I know we&#039;re a draft based league, but really with the franchise era we&#039;re one step away from having team signups. That would be cool as shit imo. And I know what you&#039;re thinking... &quot;Nostar wants to signup with NS again, he&#039;s gay&quot;. While this may sound ridiculous, after two seasons of NS and almost 3 with Chew I&#039;m pretty sick of them. I can really see signing up with miek and bones or cookies and ghost or w/e. Even if we just tested it out I really think it would take off and maybe become a preferred method. It would most likely eliminate the whole &quot;fair&quot; argument because you signed up with players you choose. As far as recreuitment goes, I get the feeling some old DXers might show up and put an interesting spin on teamse, EVO has two teams at least, UD has two or three, NS could probably get one together. If R has anyone still playing that makes 8 teams. Throw in some euros and miek and we have at least enough people for 8 teams even with some players dropping. Do not mistake my idea for a clan tourney, [b]I do not mean a clan tourney[/b], the clans were mentioned to demonstrate the amount of people who could potentially sign up. It could even take the form of a 4v4 event if enough people signed up.<br /><br />Anyway that is something that might break the monotony of Star/Bones/Ralph/Chain always dominating you fools in IDL. Maybe some coordination from pre-aligned teams would help break that cycle. Although Mantis managed this season he&#039;s been at it for years and only just now gotten into the MB. I think a change of the base idea for IDL (even just a seasonal thing) could be really fun. Anything to keep me from quitting this game forever and ruining my life with WoW ;)