By your rationale every kid that plays high school football should be in the NFL.
Or how do people manage to read and write all their lives without writing a bestselling novel?
Not really. You're comparing thriving competitive enviroment where improvement at the highest level continues...to dod where neither of those statements are true.
It's more like if 95% of the top writers in the world moved to another profession---and the 5% left continue to throw out half ass work in their spare time (treading water at best, or more likely regressing in ability)-----yet, the new writers still can't move up or match them at this horrendously reduced level of competition.
is thunder the best team every season? realistically yes, we lost a couple seasons back, and still lose 1 or 2 matches every season. but this just shows how the community has changed over the years. even back in 08/09, there were teams that wanted to beat us simply because we are a challenge to play against. but for some reason now everybody would rather show up and stomp people in lower divisions, just so they don't have to lose against us.
Don't pull a muscle patting yourself on the back.
In regards to the bolded, you're accusing them of exactly what you're doing. You'd rather show up with your "stacked" team and stomp people at lower skill levels then you, just so you don't have to lose. If you're so against this mentality, why don't you split up to challenge youself and create parity?
alex kirk wrote:I have no sympathy for the ridiculous threats of, "if you want to kill a team, move us up." Then quit **** playing, and you won't be missed.
If your team dies, then a new one with the remaining players who still want to play will form. Shogun, Airnick, stile, badnewspanda, Pat, etc. are all semi-free agents and would make a team in the event you guys die.
If you don't want to play, canteen/court/taylub, feel free not to. But if you think the threat of 2-3 players giving up DoD is more important than running a fair, decent league, then you're mistaken. Again, you won't be missed. You just aren't important enough to sway the right decision of moving you up (no one is).
You belong in invite. Sorry you won't win invite, sorry you'll lose some matches by a lot. Boo hoo.
Where's this cold, competitive Kirk coming from? I'd expect that you would want every team to be able to feel that they're special! They should never have to worry about actually improving their skillset to remain competitive. They should be able to do what makes them have fun while feeling warm and fuzzy on the inside~
Why not reverse that? Play upper preseason and see how you fair against two upper teams.
I'd rather be put in main for at least preseason to see how we are. If we look solid, then go ahead and move us up.
*team decides it doesn't want to play in upper*
*team loses preseason matches on purpose*
*team requests to stay in main, and wipes clear those irrelevent losses*
*team does well in main vs easier competition*
Sandbagging. It's been around for a while.
Teams used to WANT to be moved up--and were excited to get the opportunity. Part of the fun of dod was proving you belonged. Once this "push" is gone for the community as a whole it's gone for good. It's unfixable by FORCING people to play where they don't want to--what ever their reason is.