AC as a competitive game

[Woolly]

ESL was good...'till people started abusing the ranking system (I forget who - might have been a minor thing) and that markelhoff dude started challenging everybody (oh hi jv) he saw.
AC needs tournaments run by experienced, competitive people in AC. ESL would have been good, except, even though the guys there were good at running competitions n stuff, it wasn't an AC thing.
Larry's been doing a decent job when it comes to this stuff, gotta give him some credit. Comparatively, AC's not in a bad place (since it's mainly games that cost money where people get hyped up about it - SC2 tournaments anyone? lol).

Edit: ACinter has made a return to IRC, has it not? That was pretty good, maybe extend that to a teamspeak bot (if that's possible?)?

Might be worth looking into the ESL thing again and see if the community can make a go of it this time, weed out the idiots and abusers and try to create something stable and long lasting.