Swiftshot: I was making a joke about Kilgore accusing you of being a &quot;ladna talker&quot;.<br /><br />Fast, re: interest<br /><br />One of the things that always comes up when talking about IDL overflow is the maxim &quot;if you want to be good at Doom, you become good at Doom; it&#039;s not that hard&quot;.&nbsp; There are legitimate arguments about PCTF not being a good place to build skill/rep, and to be honest I kind of hate PCTF anyway.&nbsp; I&#039;d much rather PCTF be replaced by a more informal 3v3 CTF signup tourney.<br /><br />IDL has tried twice to run reserve leagues, and they&#039;ve failed twice for two reasons:<br /><br />&nbsp; - playing in a reserve league sucks<br />&nbsp; - 90% of reserve league players don&#039;t have the dedication required to play in IDL (which is why they&#039;re in the reserve league)<br /><br />You can get around that with offseason events because (if they&#039;re signup events) people likely won&#039;t signup if they&#039;re not interested, and they&#039;ll almost always signup with their friends so they have a much bigger incentive to show up.<br /><br />Plus the &quot;informal&quot; aspect really goes a long way towards removing the typical &quot;IDL stress&quot;:<br /><br />&nbsp; - no captain/team/player quotas; 6 teams sign up, it&#039;s a 6 team tourney<br />&nbsp; - scheduling is &quot;whenever&quot;<br />&nbsp; - players dropping out, missing games happens and teams die, no worries<br />&nbsp; - no demos so no demo violations<br /><br />So in order to directly address your concern, yes I agree interest must be gauged before running an offseason event, but it doesn&#039;t need to be on the level of IDL&#039;s interest because it should be much more relaxed and informal.