CircleBoy on the recent Woodberri Game
Posted: July 19th, 2013, 12:31 amRight. First of all I'm not going to make any arguments about wither anyone actually impersonated anyone. Because to be 100% honest I don't know. Nor does it affect this post in any way.
As some of you might know with Tanzim getting a matchban Wood berry recently spent a game against Gorillas just taking the ball to the corner and generally fucking about. We (including me) thought it was amusing. Several people didn't. I'm going to try to address why we did it and what I think should be done about it.
Without being overly critical the way the admins dealt with the impersonation issue was poor. Contradictory information, inconsistencies, nothing was really made public so people found out about it as if it was a game of chinese whispers and got half a story, etc, etc, etc. You just need to look at the still continuing shitstorm about the whole thing to see that it was mishandled.
Now combine this with the teams situation. Edgar Davids had recently taken over with most of the team playing LoL in-staid of hax. He began trying to pull a team together, organize practice and generaly improve things. We were short on players despite our seemingly large roster but spirits were high, then all of a sudden we find out one of our key players has an 8 game ban...or then a 4 game ban...or maybe an 8 game ban again. To make matters worse its on the day the transfer window closes. All that momentum...gone...
Put yourself in our shoes, just as we're pulling together we get a player knocked off for reasons that are still being debated. It sucked. You can read countless professional community managers talking about what happens when community members fell disenfranchised. But to save you the time...the game against Gorillas is what happens. You feel the community doesn't care about you so you stop caring about it. We stopped caring and we just decided to have some fun.
But that brings me to the problem that dawned on me after I was done laughing at the game. It was fun for us yes, and we got to create a little forum drama and wallow in it like pigs in shit. But it wasn't fun for the Gorillas. They were...so to speak. innocent victims. Its not their fault we felt hard done by by the admins, they just had a bad match-up that day.
So here's what I suggest, and since I'm not a captain or an admin this is only a suggestion but I think its a good one. Just re the game. But with one caveat. The gorillas can't lose. If they beat us..then they beat us. If we beat them, keep the 0-0. This way everyone's happy, we got to let of steam and fuck about, and the Gorillas don't feel like they're owed a real game.
As for the impersonation. I don't know or care if they did or didn't do it but I'd like to request the ban on Tanz at least be overturned due to outstanding circumstances. If we did indeed have impersonators it was because we don't have enough players. Giving us one less player on the eve of the close of free agency is, if anything, going to make more impersonation likely. I'm asking for a bit of leeway, some kind of probation. A sort of "one more mistake and you're gone". We do that and all of a sudden most of the drama goes away and hopefully Wood Berry gets to compete properly in Div 2.
btw I once impersonated ghost in a galaxy game
As some of you might know with Tanzim getting a matchban Wood berry recently spent a game against Gorillas just taking the ball to the corner and generally fucking about. We (including me) thought it was amusing. Several people didn't. I'm going to try to address why we did it and what I think should be done about it.
Without being overly critical the way the admins dealt with the impersonation issue was poor. Contradictory information, inconsistencies, nothing was really made public so people found out about it as if it was a game of chinese whispers and got half a story, etc, etc, etc. You just need to look at the still continuing shitstorm about the whole thing to see that it was mishandled.
Now combine this with the teams situation. Edgar Davids had recently taken over with most of the team playing LoL in-staid of hax. He began trying to pull a team together, organize practice and generaly improve things. We were short on players despite our seemingly large roster but spirits were high, then all of a sudden we find out one of our key players has an 8 game ban...or then a 4 game ban...or maybe an 8 game ban again. To make matters worse its on the day the transfer window closes. All that momentum...gone...
Put yourself in our shoes, just as we're pulling together we get a player knocked off for reasons that are still being debated. It sucked. You can read countless professional community managers talking about what happens when community members fell disenfranchised. But to save you the time...the game against Gorillas is what happens. You feel the community doesn't care about you so you stop caring about it. We stopped caring and we just decided to have some fun.
But that brings me to the problem that dawned on me after I was done laughing at the game. It was fun for us yes, and we got to create a little forum drama and wallow in it like pigs in shit. But it wasn't fun for the Gorillas. They were...so to speak. innocent victims. Its not their fault we felt hard done by by the admins, they just had a bad match-up that day.
So here's what I suggest, and since I'm not a captain or an admin this is only a suggestion but I think its a good one. Just re the game. But with one caveat. The gorillas can't lose. If they beat us..then they beat us. If we beat them, keep the 0-0. This way everyone's happy, we got to let of steam and fuck about, and the Gorillas don't feel like they're owed a real game.
As for the impersonation. I don't know or care if they did or didn't do it but I'd like to request the ban on Tanz at least be overturned due to outstanding circumstances. If we did indeed have impersonators it was because we don't have enough players. Giving us one less player on the eve of the close of free agency is, if anything, going to make more impersonation likely. I'm asking for a bit of leeway, some kind of probation. A sort of "one more mistake and you're gone". We do that and all of a sudden most of the drama goes away and hopefully Wood Berry gets to compete properly in Div 2.
btw I once impersonated ghost in a galaxy game
" other than the site change?
sry 
:p i know i told alot of stuff to admins to just try and annoy them, mainly as a way things had went with perkins and jonny, sorry it was wrong to try and 'troll' you by saying i was impersonationg and bla bla
