Well,
we Loose Deuce won the SDL season 1 last year, we spend a lot of time into the organisation and we trained a lot together. It pushed our squad real good, everyone was so exited! we had around 20 LD pilots at some matches, some of our opponents just brought in the minimum of 6 ppl. But all, even the guys on the waiting list enjoyed the fights. If you take a look at my youtube vidoes you can listen about the team spirit and the fun about it. The SDL is something like eletronic sports, after each match, most happend aound 11:00 pm on sunday night, i was not able to sleep because it is so intense....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krkLzbf-iyYor also great fun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjeCnIbWWlUso far the enthusastic part!
BUT waystin nailed it a bit, we need a SDL management table, where each squadron send in one member to decide when things fgo wrong!
We have actual a lot of rules, great rules, but these where sadly never used!
rules:
This league is designed in part to encourage friendly competitive game play between squads. Currently the Squad Dueling League (SDL) has three managing members, daddog, hammer, and trotter. Decisions by any of the three are final and not open for debate. Squads may be dismissed from the league at any time for any one or any combination of the following:
- Members whose intent is to insult other members
- Members whose intent is to discredit HTC or Aces High
- Members whose intent is to frustrate other players
- Members who continually complain or whineand more...
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we saw sadly constant whining during the matches and afterwards at the AAR! Its nothing more frustrating than constant whining to me! I am 45, did sports for my whole life, broke a lot of my bones doing sports, and i one of those who also did some sad fouls too, but ones turned shake hands and drink a good beer after the match. Still kick the ball with my old boys playing football (soccer), but never i saw so many bad behavier before ! change those bad and mostly arrogant bahavier by eject single members out of the SDL league and it will be one of the best things at AH!!! Therefore we need to have a SDL management table to decide who crossed the line and will be ejected out of the SDL. Our SDL manager 4brkfast decided to skip season 2, we will return in season 3 and i hope we will find a solution to sort out the gaming kids and some old bones who never did sports and never learned to lose. All i can say, the SDL is one of the best parts of AH, but it need more influence be the squadrons which take part. Because the SDL squadrons are the SDL!
As an example for bad behavier, we LD fought another squadron, members of a third squadron watched our match inside the DA. when there was a little confusion about fuel usage (which was all my fault, i gave my guys some wrong information) four guys of this third 'watching' squadron stepped up and beginn a discussion about the fight! Noone asked for something! i can say this was a classic NO GO to me, maybe i am a bit too much old school but i wish we might find a solution for the future to make sure that players who not following above rules will be ejected for one season
Salute
dhyran