by Igor » Fri Aug 28, 2015 1:58 am
SoulMan's offer to look for guilty player each time looks such a boring thing with long and negative discussion. Better to do this one time for now and for future.
SoulMan and Zillusion are competitors for top places and probably will do this in the next season. This supposes to have some games each other, may be more than one like in this season. But not too much though because looks that winner usually get more than loser loses in the same game and 20 games with result 11-9 or 10-10 will move both players up. I'm far from thinking Zillusion and SoulMan could use this but it's necessary to understand this point and to have a limit for such games. That is why I offered 3 games between any teammates per season and 2 additional games with teammates who gets 1-5th places on 1v1 ladder. If it is, SoulMan and Zillusion could play each other 5 games a season for the ladder. Current rules are very good as well, this is what the ladder need.
Let me explain why limit on games between teammates is absolutely necessary. Without such limit Whitelord for example will play 20 games with Smursh next season and being stronger will probably win as 18-2. Seeing this Zillusion would ask Snow to play also 20 games or so, and also being stronger he would win 18-2 as well. If the map they used were comparable they will get comparable ladder points. I don't plan to have much activity on 1v1 ladder next season but if this would be I also can ask one of teammates to play with me 20 games and I perhaps also can win the match with 18-2 or so. Thus 3 players, me, Zillusion and Whitelord, will get big advantage over all, especially over non-team players who will not get just a little chance to win the ladder this way.
Thus what this will be? This will not be fair play as I understand it but more like a kind of deal between teammates. Direct way to discredit the ladder. This is why I think that definite rules about games between teammates are absolutely necessary. Great thing that we have them.
(Smursh, Snow, sorry that I noted you here in context of losing, I based this supposition on current ladder results only.)