WAR SEASON II: Discussion

[Ash K.]

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.

So I've been talking to a few other people on Skype, and I came up with an idea:

I'm proposing a merge with Team Awesome. Right now, we're looking at this:

Team Trainer - 20
The Prism League - 16
The Phoenix Battalion - 9
Team Awesome - 7
Team Magma - 5

Team Trainer and The Prism League both have a big lead up on both of our teams in terms of member count and power. However, if both Phoenix and Awesome were to merge, the gap would be closed in significantly and all of us would stand a much better chance at winning the WAR. Plus, both of our teams have strong common interests in things like graphic art and RP, so there's a strong synergy there and I definitely think we would work well together as a united team. Plus I honestly think this would be a great opportunity for all of us to have a better chance at winning the WAR.

So far, I've talked to Sabi, Bron, and XaiakuX himself, and everyone seems to like the idea.

We haven't worked out the exact details yet, but I would like to hear everyone's thoughts and ideas on this first. I will definitely take everyone's opinions and thoughts into account.

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.)