Thank You Letter to the RGL Admin Team
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@Saturation upvote
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RGL has had and reliably will make a pretty good chunk of bad to questionable decisions. They’re allowed to; their competitors are in caskets one way or another. You can take my word by ear though since I’ve only been around since 2011.
Rant for bored people with nothing better:
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I’d argue the rules with any form of grey area tend to have admin discretion for the worse- but we couldn’t possibly see discretion towards a leniency since there’d be no record; it certainly exists. This leniency exists for rules with no grey area, such as the demo issue this thread is about, so this leads to clear bias per individual decision. Of course people are going to be upset when this occurs; it’s the only “major” third party NA comp scene for this game and it didn’t/doesn’t follow its own rules on a semi-regular basis… and the community that uses it takes the fall for this discrepancy through the league’s own shortcomings (such as massive unwarranted overreach on the part of rgl with equally unwarranted punishments / e.g casting and bans (+the threat of being banned acting imo as a very scummy deterrent instead of opting to work with the community) or that one point in time where the league acted as if it owned the scrims teams played with literally no possible way to argue such a case)
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Relevant:
To make this relevant to the thread- when one player gets x warnings before a ban and another gets x+2 and another gets x+2+ Y slaps on the wrist that isn’t noted all parties are pissed. The first was shot down and drowned out by the league (his wife and child awaiting his return), the second is upset that they weren’t treated as the third, and the third is upset since the pattern usually lead to no punishment and suddenly has. This discrepancy is what causes the issue. It shouldn’t be hard to fix yet I’m guessing the effort to deal usually just isn’t worth it for some random dude who signed up and saw both inside and out.Short end statement: If you or anyone want to help actively change things sign up to be a part of staff. I can’t vouch anything will come of it. I heard from prior staff that they just couldn’t change things in their time there. What else to do though? Who knows and at this point how many people care? That’s a sign of failure- unless I’m alone with those thoughts.
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@Teli said in Thank You Letter to the RGL Admin Team:
Short end statement: If you or anyone want to help actively change things sign up to be a part of staff. I can’t vouch anything will come of it. I heard from prior staff that they just couldn’t change things in their time there. What else to do though? Who knows and at this point how many people care? That’s a sign of failure- unless I’m alone with those thoughts.
For RGL, it’s an entirely volunteer-run league by players who apply to help out and want to improve the league. Plenty of recent and past admins have joined the staff team because they disliked how the league was running or even the way how admins were running things were not up-to-par with what they wanted from the league. Being an admin does require putting in the full effort to contribute to changes for the better.
On a separate note, the turnover rate for admining is extremely high. On average, both 6s and HL lose about two or three admins/mods each season, which is due to a combination of factors such as real-life obligations, being burnt out from the workload or community, etc. It can be difficult to find recruits that like admin work and want to be active. I certainly recommend players to apply for an admin position when this opens up during the offseason.