HildrethWARHURYEAHThe good thing with ESEA is that there was a zero tolerance rule in some areas, with ETF2L all the admins just seem scared to make a decision (Nations cup final, Sweden get ddos, Germans take default, admins do nothing to reschedule game)
What are you on about? Not making a decision to reschedule the game is as tough a decision to make as rescheduling the game. I can't really say whether or not it was the CORRECT decision without the details but every choice made it for a good reason, a game like Sweden v Germany would have had a long in depth discussion involving the decision.
ESEA's zero tolerance policy is part of the reason why:
1) One of the best teams in NA Invite dropped from the league.
2) Why some European teams have dropped.
Zero tolerance for particular rules is necessary, but common sense needs to apply. For example why do you think we have warnings in ETF2L? To keep teams in check and on schedule but if a team cannot remain on schedule they have a safety blanket of a Wildcard and at worst, they will get a minor warning (accumulate 3 per season and you lose a point). If ESEA had run something similiar, Watch This would still be in Invite.
Allowing a team to take a default win in a very big match to me is stupid, an admin could have just said "reschedule this, take extra precautions" but no, everyone showed up to watch a game with Sweden vs. Germany and we got fuck all, on top of that we had the giant swe vs. ger fallout without any admin support. I'm not praising the ESEA way in zero tolerance 100% but it areas it is very good, match scheduling in ETF2L is a giant pain in the fucking arse because team can just fuck up schedules with retarded Wildcard usage, I'm not saying it's good in all areas but ETF2L really needs to adopt a more strict policy that actually benefits team making the effort.