I think this would work...

[Destructo]

I say, honerably retire all the clans, and start form zero again.

There should be trades and draft picks..lol

But serious, if everyone retired, and then started from scratch again. That would be kind of fun and competitive.

Just a thought.
Desta

[Typhy]

It might actually be pretty cool, however, never will happen.

[MacMan]

i think i'd love it, too bad there would always be people not wanting to or messing it up for their own sick reasons.

[Brain]

that would be a very cool idea, then every clan will have at least one very good player.

However, the bl would probably break down into 2v2 or 3v3 involving the very best players on a team. The rest would just ride the clan name to the top.

[pfc biohzrd]

Brain,

Isnt that what happens anyways?

bio

[*DAMN Hazard]

that would be cool but what about the players choice? u cant force a player to play for a certain clan.

[Typhy]

Exactly, you can't force a player to do it, and I really don't think that it would work at all. I also think that a lot of the top players would retire, I know that if I got drafted into one of the worst clans, I would consider it.

[Bondo]

Well, we could do that and have schedules and such, but we feel there shouldn't be that much control.  The players choose the clans, the clans choose who and when to battle.  To set all these controls would make it less fun.

I think it would be neat but like I said it wouldn't be as fun as you think.

[Typhy]

Yes, perhaps it would be interesting to split everyone up, then agagin, I think that it would mess the whole thing up, clans would have players they don't like, etc. It wouldn't work.

[AK_Rap1d]

Heh Dest. ?There's a food for thought. ?Being that all we do is act like this:
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I guess if you were ever to do something like that, it would have to be done at the end of the season with NO OLD CLANS allowed back and have everyone have to start over. ?But if we did that, it would defeat the purpose of a lot of clans that had planned to be around forever. ?Hell, a lot of clans were formed in 2002/late 2001, so a lot of the clans are new anyway! |?K|*R?p1d?*

[Bondo]

Yes, and some clans were formed in June of 2000 .

I don't specifically think that having players on one clan that dislike each other is unbarable.  Assuming they care more about making themselves look good they would accept the team and play.  But still, I don't think that is direction we should be looking.

[PsYcO aSsAsSiN]

If you tried to do such a thing, you would run into many snafus...

Who would lead the clans?
How could you force someone to stay with a certain clan?
Can you trade players?
What happens when someone isnt chosen, can he pick his own clan?
Who decides on who goes to what clan?

This idea in general will never work.

[*DAMN Hazard]

yea could u imagine rebel, lothario and rapid drafted into the same clan? that wouldnt last so long.

[Bondo]

Yeah, and Grifter, Ultimo, and I were in the same clan for MoH despite past issues.  That concern is minor but Sin brings up more serious concerns with the fact that putting it together has many technical difficulties, not just personality difficulties.

[Typhy]

Well, I think that we all know that it would never work, Still, some parts of it sound kinda fun. Loth, Rebel and Rapid, Lol! - Rapid, I will refrain from making a really mean joke.

[AK_Rap1d]

Now why did you go deleting my post! ?

Is this what I can expect from you as a moderator aSs?

(Obvious it's you by the way you replied in the other post about my smileys and being that I had some sweet smiley for this post, doesn't surprise me one bit you deleted it to be a dick.) ? ? RapidAssassin

[PsYcO aSsAsSiN]

I deleted your post because it was spam...I deleted 3 posts in a row from this thread - yours, Typhy's, and I think SK's because they were all spam.

Rapid, if you protest against me deleting spam, you can go fuck yourself.

[Typhy]

And for saying that to Rapid when it was totaly uncalled for, you can go fuck yourself too Sin. I don't care if you delete my posts from time to time, if you think that it's spam, than as a moderator, it's your job to delete it, however, telling Rapid that he can go fuck himself was totaly uncalled for. Rapid, come on, Please! Limit your smileys to 3 per post, or at least 1 per word!

[Mr. Lothario]

    Why not institute a second, rigidly controlled ladder, one complete with all the accoutrements of a league such as trades and drafting and scheduled battles? All the players who wanted to participate would be (for the purposes of this league) stripped of their clan affiliations and placed into a pool. The league clans would be formed from that pool.

    This idea for implementation is just off the cuff and likely has many flaws. Regardless, the point is that it's possible to have the best of both worlds: the fun-oriented, spontaneous current BL; and the planned, structured, dynamic second league.

[Typhy]

Loth, no matter how you try and do it, it wouldn't work:  Take for example the MaG ladder, a ladder involving schedualed battles, only 2 battles were done, the same is true with the 1v1 tornament, it would be hard enough just to have that, and to have people not be able to pick their clan? It just wouldn't work at all.