MR_SLINGive some concrete, real reasons as to what this new league would do that is simply not possible with ESEA. It might sound like I'm against this switch but I actually think it's an amazing idea if someone actually cares enough to execute and see it through to the finish line.
My possibilities would be possibly a very small prize pool(total of 500$? maybe less), maybe some keys, games, etc. try to make a league with more than just 3 (i think 4 will do I think 5 is too much) division, PUNISH SANDBAGGERS/PREVENT THEM harshly. And have better admins (that last one is hard of course but UGC has poor admins
The reason UGC is flopping in 6s (and in general) is cause it has a horrid maplist, poor match management, sandbaggers are rampant, no real schedule. Also UGC is mainly known/advertises as a HL website somewhat. So it doesn't dedicate to 6s much at all.
They make the top badges hard to achieve as hard as the esea prize (only top 3 teams in each div get a special badge. the rest just earn a participant badge, no playoff badge, also they give the badge to anyone that just joins the league so participant badges are worthless basically. only give participant badges to players that players for at least 85% of the season or something.)
The "new" league" could have these types of badges
- Top four team badges, Playoff team badges, Participant badges (must have played 10 out of 12 games, etc)
- Best demo, medic, scout, soldier, MVP of the season (earned by being voted as best from the playoff players)
- Admin, worker badges that show you helped/run the league in anyway
even if you can't have these badges made just a website recognition would really help.