he’s training for our all-scheme challenge

Why dont you stop talking and come back for clanners?? Uve been missing out so many of them, how long is this vacation of your lasting? Clanner is a full time job, get a move on fool

I avoid sbaffo because he smells of salami and pepperoni

You wish you knew how real salumi smell

Void the game, no ganja texture

Last thing: TUS should take a stand about this matter, either continue with this democratic approach that lets anyone do what they want, or make a strict set of rules to abide by. If TUS keps going with the first option, as optimistic as i'd like to be, the new TRL idea won't last more than 3 seasons, i guarantee you.

Ok, i'll try to take off my autistic hat for a second and try to seriously explain you what goes in my mind.

I've always been a keen league player, i've played 5000 games in this league, competition runs through my veins and it is the only way i enjoy playing this game mostly

It is true that people have their own definition of "having fun" and i totally understand that, we're all different after all, but sometimes people seem to use this as an excuse or a mean to get away with their egoistic and/or cowardice behaviour.

We seem to forget everyday that whenever we talk about about competition, there must be some league concept behind it. Leagues work because they have their very own structure and strict set of rules, the main goal is to finally reward the most skilled and fearless player among the others. If you're willing to play in a competitive league, you're implicitly agreeing to the set of rule and you're most likely aware of what you're about to go through.

Now i know what you're thinking, WA doesn't have enough players right now to be competitive enough, but it's not the central topic in my post. In this game reported here, we can see how people, during a more competitive era, were treated. Notice also, how moderators were more strict towards these kind of behaviours. If you were a cheap/lamer player, you were treated accordingly, hence these type of behaviours were highly discouraged, if not punished, and as a consequence making it harder for you to reach the playoffs, the main goal of this league (rn the main goal for some people is to get a bunch of points and show off some medals, hahaha...). Now what would happen if Walrus and I came across a similar situtation like this today and acted accordingly? The feedback would be totaly different, we would be the one seen as the cowards, and the mods would probably agree with the plebs, despite the fact that the set of rules to abide by have been pretty much the same for the past years.

See what happened? Instead of keep enforcing the same set of rules, the league has always been favourable over the general opinion of the players, thus, in the past years at least, making a league more friendly shaped with the last generation of players. Has it helped with the activity though? Doesn't look like so. Is it the main reason of the inactivity of this league? Probably not completely, but it partially played a major role in my opinion, because playing league this way, at least personally for me, has made it less enjoyable and less competitive. In my eyes, the league has become a joke over the years. To enforce my statement, i'd like to quote a wise guy:

We can go back and forth for days about blame for the downfall of league play, but I find it negligent to blame MI for anything that has happened.  The home page has read the same from day 1 - a site for wormers, built on the suggestions of the community.  I have watched over the years as MI has complied with the suggestions of members; sometimes good, and occasionally terrible, but if it was the will of the people, MI has complied. 

So here we are at the forums homepage that has been guided by a wholistic, democratic approach, and people are complaining about the outcome.  If you want a culprit, point at yourself.  Not much work has gone into this community for a few years now, and your average drive by hot take on TUS involves trashing MI and deadcode and maligning the state of the community.

We put competitive and skills behind to let anyone here have their own 5 minutes of glory so can they showoff their fake medals and fake winning streaks. On another note i love how most of the suggestion that were posted in the topic i quoted walrus, were given by members that never played or at least never took the league seriously.

Now i wanna talk about the fact about why people should be forced to play schemes they don't like:

Right now tus allround has got 11 schemes, ofc people between these schemes, will have on one hand their favourite personal schemes and on the other hand their least favourite schemes. Everybody does, and that includes me as well. So why the f@#! am i supposed to let my opponent decide what to play for the both of us, which competitively speaking gives him a far bigger advantage and a higher chance at winning while i'm not going to enjoy the ride likewisely? That's why i think the "your pick, my pick" is the fairest way to play in this league: you and i both get to play what we enjoy. Don't like my scheme? Well, play 5 minutes, then you're free to quit and give out a free win. I'm sure you won't mind losing points in a scheme you don't care about, right? What did you say? You don't want to lose points? Well my friend, that's called hypocrisy. You state that you wanna play for fun but at the same time you care for points? Hahaha nt...

Not only that, losing points in the schemes you dislike makes it less convenient for your opponent to pick it, hence making it a less smart choice. So we can see that, if the current set rules was enforced properly, the league would work clockwise. However, it's not happening. Because people wanna be competitive in this site but at the same time wanna complain about everything, everyone here look like they want to have a league suitable for themselves without being competitive. It's time some of the people look up on a dictionary:
competition /ˌkɒmpɪˈtɪʃn/ : the activity or condition of striving to gain or win something by defeating or establishing superiority over others.
So if you can't handle the pressure and you don't like being smashed, you should consider playing your favourite scheme by simply hosting it on the wormnet and without bothering competitive players here on tus.

What i think is that the moderators and admins should start making and enforcing their own decisions rather favour the plebs opinion, there are plenty ways we could enforce a more competitive league. Matchmaking is one of them, we could have safe login again on wormnet and bring back ranks again. The key for all innovations right now is automation. And as an automation addicted (i automated dozens of procedures during my internship in the bank, making me pretty popular among the office) i'd like to discuss it further with you.


*takes autistic hat back*

1v1 me comet dodging komo

Shtaket's taps looks like pure cheat tbh, like script

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