05 Feb 11, 02:47PM
To be honest, I can't really understand the big deal here.
There's a ladder provided by TyD and there are servers with TyD in their name. Seems quite easy to figure this, in my opinion. I sense there's more to it, but just the plain existence of a ladder. But let's leave politics asside...
From my experience it's not that there weren't no skilled players on those servers (TyD), but a lot of them run off instantly, whenever some less popular map comes up.
It seems like a lot of highly skilled players just stick to the maps they are good at and anything beyond that will be ignored. Which surely was encouraged by the limited maprots of HI-SKILL servers.
I'm not saying this kind of maprot was any bad in general. There aren't much official maps balanced well enough to allow for upmost fairness for sure. Though, this was pretty much the opposite of encouraging players to learn about all maps.
However, I didn't like HI-SKILL servers too much. Boring maprots, cocky players and an aggresive mood all over the place.
In the end you, Pandel and others, are asking for a place for the pros to meet and to play real competitive games. Fair enough.
Newbies and occasional players don't care about ladders (just like myself, btw). You could leave this group of players out of your considerations completly and rather think about how to get the competive players together. I doubt any ladder-server would magically make all the pros appear at the same time at the same place...
There's a ladder provided by TyD and there are servers with TyD in their name. Seems quite easy to figure this, in my opinion. I sense there's more to it, but just the plain existence of a ladder. But let's leave politics asside...
From my experience it's not that there weren't no skilled players on those servers (TyD), but a lot of them run off instantly, whenever some less popular map comes up.
It seems like a lot of highly skilled players just stick to the maps they are good at and anything beyond that will be ignored. Which surely was encouraged by the limited maprots of HI-SKILL servers.
I'm not saying this kind of maprot was any bad in general. There aren't much official maps balanced well enough to allow for upmost fairness for sure. Though, this was pretty much the opposite of encouraging players to learn about all maps.
However, I didn't like HI-SKILL servers too much. Boring maprots, cocky players and an aggresive mood all over the place.
In the end you, Pandel and others, are asking for a place for the pros to meet and to play real competitive games. Fair enough.
Newbies and occasional players don't care about ladders (just like myself, btw). You could leave this group of players out of your considerations completly and rather think about how to get the competive players together. I doubt any ladder-server would magically make all the pros appear at the same time at the same place...