@Senator - I've hosted ZaR in the past, at certain points in time i've been one of the most obsessive, successful and dedicated Ropers of all time.
I've also saw dibs hooked on ZaR for a while.
You know what's fascinating to me, in general, humans hate change, they love to remain in their comfort zone, they find a routine and they stick to it, anything outside of that, regardless if other people like it or not, makes them feel uncomfortable and/or angry and frustrated.
You are all addicted to the only schemes the league had to offer, outside of that, honestly what have you tried?
It's like old people saying new music sucks, it's like America telling China not to buy their weapons from Russia.
It's simple, PEOPLE ARE BORED of TUS Classic, why else don't they play anymore? Sure, people have families, jobs, commitments, but you know the simple truth about life? If something is interesting enough, or important enough, you will make time for it regardless of what else is happening in your life.
This League got boring, same people, same schemes, same challenges, same outcomes, same sh*t day after day after day...
You know what proves this? Money, people come out of the shadows they lurk in to compete whenever TUS League offers cash prizes, because JUST PLAYING the schemes for fun, isn't fun enough anymore! They have done it to death already, so the addition of money makes it exciting again! Let's face it, the time spent to win like $20, you could earn way more in a day with a real job, so all the money does, is introduce certain bragging rights, which adds the excitement.
You wanna know what I honestly think, people are ruining this League, because they refuse to change anything but also refuse to play, you argue against change even though you don't even play anyway, that's extremely stupid...
"OH, PLEASE DON'T CHANGE A LEAGUE I NEVER PLAY, I DON'T LIKE IT, AND BECAUSE I DON'T LIKE IT SURELY MEANS NOBODY ELSE DOES"
And you all accuse me of having a massive ego lmao, please, the amount of hypocrites on these forums is crazy.
The only difference is, I just say it outright, you guys do everything you can to hide it because you are afraid people won't like you.
Edit - I know the post is long enough but think about this please without judging me as a person, and focusing ONLY on the words said.
Why did we get into the schemes we did in the 1st place? For some of us, who specialize in certain schemes it's because we are simply the kind of person that finds something simple and fun enough you get good at it fast, and doing things that impress other people make us feel good or because it's so popular, and our cultures in general are defined by success and popularity, which drives people being competitive in the 1st place!
Right now, TUS Classic schemes are not popular, look at the amount of people playing Worms Armageddon schemes that aren't used in Classic League.
I don't think that people want to compete in things where they have to play catch up for many years to compete with people who have been doing something for so long that the only chance they have is to practise literally for years...
What Anubis said hit me like a ton of bricks, the matchmaking system in this game is extremely old and outdated, even with everything i've said, even if we did change the schemes, I still think we would have a better chance of bringing popularity back into Leagues if we were able to convince DC/CS and Team17 to give us some sort of online automated service for playing games and having a rank that way.
As a newcomer to Worms Armageddon, in this day and age where everything else is so easy, having to register and manually report games on a website with a complex and confusing layout, can't exactly be very motivating can it?