WAR SEASON II: Discussion

[Lord Celebi]

I'd like to reply to this from the Phoenix Battalion thread without intruding in their thread and addressing a general concern I've had this year, so I think it's best posted here.



I'm sorry, but it seems a little unfair to just be closing the member gap between PB/Awesome and Trainer/Prism by leaving Magma, JMC, and Yoga Bears way behind. Honestly, the way the big teams keep getting bigger while the small ones struggle to barely make minimum requirement has been a large frustration of this year's WAR. Since the scoring system isn't scaled based on team size (which also has its advantages, primarily not making people feel like they're forced to do anything or are hurting the team), the smaller teams are left at a huge disadvantage right from the start. Having 5 people score as much as 20 is pretty much asking every member to doing be four times as much as they should have to. While I agree with not imposing an absolute limit on the teams, something may need to be done to fix this. One possible way is to impose a relative limit, saying that the difference between the minimum and maximum team sizes can't exceed a certain amount. While that cap is already met, members can't join a team of maximum size until the minimum size increases. Like any solution, it has faults and perhaps there is a better one, but none comes to mind at the time of posting this.

(also, before anyone tells me "if this is how I feel I shouldn't have made another team", please be aware HKim spent days talking me into it. Also, the fewer teams we have, the less it really feels like WAR. Two or three giant teams fighting it out is nowhere near as exciting as seven teams battling all across the forums.)

The WAR Leaders will discuss this and return with an answer.