[Rage]

I personally support having an objective benchmark - 100 games, or 200 games, or whatever, but then COMBINING that with an admin veto system.

Rather than giving admins the power to allow people to play, give them the power to veto people who meet the technical requirements but who we don't believe are members of the community.

This allows us to have a fairly attainable rule that isn't too draconian for those who are genuinely interested in becoming a part of the community - such as Soulman has done, as well as BalloonSPR appears to be doing.

But it also allows us to screen out those who don't really want to join the community.

For example, if we have a 100 games requirement, and a Korean nobody has heard of or spoken to joins, say, Nerve, and plays his 100 games and then uses that to compete in every SC2SEA event from then on without doing any more ladder games, I think that the admins need the power to say "I don't CARE if you technically met the requirements, you are obviously not interested in participating in this community and so you are barred from entry."