Quote Originally Posted by Felly View Post
I am chill. I'm not posting all of this because my team didn't get top three or because I'm mad we lost. I'm not posting this because I was on a team with only 9 people. I'd still be posting all of this even if my team had won the WAR or if I was on a larger team. I'm posting this because I see issues with the current system of WAR and I feel they should be brought to light so that they can be fixed. I'm trying to be reasonable and calm here, and I'm not trying to start any drama. I'm sorry if it comes off that way, but it's not what I want to do. Even if there's not another WAR for whatever reason, these suggestions can be used in whatever similar large scale event you guys come up with. I'm merely making suggestions and responding to the comments on those suggestions because I feel there's some misunderstanding.

I will, however, apologize for the comments about the 40.5 points thing. While I do believe it's disgusting, it was probably a bit uncalled for, so I do apologize for that. I do also believe it is an issue though, but it's with the current system, not with any of the WAR participants or judges.
It links into a wider point that people get really worked up about WAR for some strange reason. So many people complained about x or y because they cared so much about winning an Internet game that it just got petty.

Look, this is the same system we've been using for 13 years, give or take a draft. This is not a large enough system to warrant redistributive policies with points, and even if so, there is no fair way to do that without detracting from the meritocratic aspects of the WAR. These aren't like real economies where money begets more money. Teams have equal opportunity to earn enough points every week given the willingness of people to join their team and participate and their ability to achieve. That's it. This is supposed to be a fun and friendly competition for sport, not Little League Baseball (both in the everyone gets to go on 1st Base aspect and the crazy helicopter parents aspect of the metaphor). Your team isn't doing so good? Hate the players, not the game.

I realize that this sounds a little privileged coming from a member of this year's winning team, but I've also lost quite a lot of WARs too. If I really cared that much about winning, I wouldn't have been in charge of Aqua a billion times. I enjoy the WAR. The game, the banter, the people that play, and in recent years the organization have been aspects that really appealed to me.

Oh, and if it wasn't 10:30 at night I'd be happy to do some statistics and show how the point distribution roughly fell onto the normal curve.