[Volition]

Originally Posted by TAEdarus

I think the issue is this league was BSGP instead of BSG.

At the beginning of the tournament this was promoted as BSG, not BSGP. there was only 1 team (maybe 2) that submitted with plats, and then there was the full plat QED team that was meant to be playing in tier 4 (but there were 1000000 tier 4 teams, and the QED teams merged and split). from that point it suddenly became the BSGP league. So i am not real sure that this was always the BSGP - in splitting Zerocraft we went P/D and BSG, as that was what we thought were the rules.

From chadmann's advice, there is no promotion and demotion system - so tbh it doesnt really matter. From the comments above the two sides of the argument are as follows:

1. Allow more plats+ each week:-
a) these guys started in the league, and have worked hard for their promotion, to be punished and essentially told they cant all play; and
b) teams whose players have been promoted now have a solid number of their players are ineligible for the first three games of each match.
c) by not allowing more plats, it allows a stronger team on paper to get taken out by a weaker team due to this single restriction

2. Dont amend the rule for more than 2 plats a week:-
a) this was promoted as the BSG league;
b) forcing a team of predominantly silver players to play plats isnt fair (and it isnt really fun for the silvers); and
c) two plat+ per week can still play each week - to allow more is to disadvantage teams that have a relatively weak lineup when compared to some of the powerhouses in the competition.

Is that a relative summary of the positions from both sides? As pretty much everyone has said, both sides have a good case, so picking one is always going to make the other unhappy.

EDIT - just read the posts in the interim - Why not just let the top 5 teams field whatever teams they want when playing each other, but enforce the two plat rule when playing the bottom 6?

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	breadfan:	nice summary!
	TAEdarus: