My day 5 rant

Holy hell. Did the community go crazy on esl or what? I think they got your message guys. Judging by the post on esl's website, i'd say they did at least.

Everyone bashed them pretty hard over a lot of things the past few days. Whats funny is that the person posting the ruleset stuff wasn't even an esl admin. (although i do agree some of his ideas were borderline stupid)

I don't really have a lot to rant about , just a quick few things to point out.

The patch I think actually made my gameplay worse. Thankfully Jock of Bashandslash.com came up with a config which is helping some gamers. You can check it out here.

There's been a few ideas out in the community now in regards to rulesets. After talking to Matt "PhearLP" Rogers this morning I'm sort of starting to question our judgement of thinking bo3 format will work. We're looking at at least 3-4 leagues all doing bo3? Giant Headache. Besides a lot of great ruleset ideas Phear proposed we do a 9 week season. 3 weeks demo, 3 weeks dom, 3 weeks ctf. You'd still be playing all gametypes. I'm still not sold on taking SD completely out as I've heard some people saying its fun to scrim (note i said scrim, not pub! If you're talking about pubbing gtfo my blog.) I almost want to propose 2 weeks sd, 2 weeks ctf, 2 weeks demo, 2 weeks dom.

I value input from people, what can I say. Phear isn't the only person that's spoken up to me. Jock Yitch has suggested barebones ctf/sd as the way to go. I got to admit, I played barebones ctf with him in his server and really enjoyed it. While I'm for keeping most of the perks in(except the stupid ones) I don't think stripping the perks out is whats going to kill the community. I think us changing shit so damn much and a lack of a free league for the pubbers to start in and play is whats hurting us. I'm open to the idea of barebones. As jock put it, just you and your gun vs the world.

Hill published his team's ctf config. I'd encourage people to check it out. Kanguh is preaching the virtues of dom and his settings. Check em out, give input. Thats what we need more than anything else right now. Well, anything else except treyarch actually fixing the game. But thats another story.

Anywho, I appreciate any input that anyone gives. Keep up with the ideas guys. Except for those of you saying tdm. Just stop now. Focus on something else.