Zandronum

Samurai wrote: Quick question, are you looking for specificly North American captains, or Europeans too? I can think someone like Dragon would be a very good cap if you're looking over this part of the world too.

Ten wrote: And please don't bring up the IDL, don't even get me started on that.

Metal wrote: The stuff I expected to hear

Saber wrote: I despise simpletons that cheat even if its "to just to see what its like."

IDL and the league are not your toys to just throw away when a better one comes out.

Ten wrote:

Metal wrote: The stuff I expected to hear

What people don't seem to understand is that I don't have a history of flakiness or unreliability on Skulltag, at all. I've never bailed on any team, league or event on Skulltag in the 8+ years I've been playing here. I've done nothing here on Skulltag to indicate that I would be a bad team manager. I've done much in this community to prove otherwise. When I took over as the commissioner of the SICL when DB was removed from power, I turned it from a small forum operation into an entire expansive league with completely new rules and even an entire website and forum system. If I can run an entire CTF league, I'm pretty goddamn sure I can run a CTF team. Bottom line, don't think I've done anything here on Skulltag/Zandro to jeopardize my ability to manage things, especially a single team. And for the dark cloud that still lingers over me: My getting banned two years ago (read: two years ago). Right, because using an aimbot somehow detriments your ability to manage a team of people. What a ridiculous argument. What happened then was extremely stupid and regrettable, but it has absolutely no correlation to my ability to lead a team.

That alone should be enough reason to validate me capping in this league. However I will indulge the asshats and address the event that occurred outside of Zandronum and the main reason why some people are critical of me capping: The recent IDL season. Yes, I resigned as captain from my IDL team last fall. The entire reason I did that was because of Odamex. I'm not a fan of Odamex, at all, but at the time I was still banned from Zandronum and I was very much interested in getting back into some form of active Doom playing so I was willing to deal with playing on Odamex. However maybe a week after the draft, before the season even started, I found out that my ban here on Zandronum was going to be up soon. With that revelation, I instantly lost almost all desire to stay in the IDL playing Odamex for months to come. Knowing this, I made haste and wanted to back out before the season started to minimize the damage to the season. I knew that leaving once the season started would be catastrophically more damaging than leaving before it started, so I made the announcement that same day so replacements could be start being found by the time Week 1 started to ensure it was a smooth transition. I understand that leaving at all was a pretty big blow to the IDL admins, but there seems to be a rather large misconception as to *why* I did it. I didn't do it because "oh fuck the IDL," I did it because playing in the IDL was basically my only option at the time (because we all know what ZD has turned into). And I understand that doesn't completely justify my decision to leave, but I believe that is a far more justifiable reason to leave than just "oh I don't give a shit about the integrity of the IDL so I'm just gonna go because lol." If that were the case I would have done what SoulSucka did and just up and left without saying a word to anyone, halfway during the season. I didn't do that for a reason. Oh, and by the way, I played in five seasons in the IDL prior to this season and I didn't bail on a single one of them. But I guess everyone forgot about that. So no, I absolutely do not feel what happened there should disqualify me from capping here.

So in conclusion, no, I do not believe that I would make a bad captain in the ZCC. I don't have a history of bailing on anything in ST/Zan, I've managed and built an entire CTF league, I've played in five prior IDL seasons while captaining in two of them didn't bail on any of them, and the one I did bail on was before the season even started because I was looking out for the team. And I don't even think I need mention any of my admin experience on major server clusters on top of that. The IDL arguments and my cheating are both weak arguments, so I know there's more than just that going on behind the scenes (funny how you were first to respond). I honestly feel that I'm more qualified than 99% of the people here to lead a team. The cost of all this red tape must be getting expensive.

Ivan wrote: Anyway, how many teams are planned to be there? Over 10?

For now we're looking at either 6 or 8 teams, but that may change.

Saber wrote: Basically you made a commitment to the IDL to cap last season. Which means you committed yourself to being there for the entire season. Your only excuse for breaking that commitment is that someone waved a piece of pie in front of you. It seems to me that they don't want to take the risk on your whims of pleasure. Quite honestly from me personally I despise simpletons that cheat even if its "to just to see what its like."

IDL and the league are not your toys to just throw away when a better one comes out.