Bah screw it...just make it unranked and wellcome wgvd

Bullsh*t.

It is a bigger motivation to play for 'something', even if that something is a number in a ranking. It adds more emotions to a war, and that is indisputable. Hence, those wars are more fun to play, the thrill of competition with added spice of a reward in sight.

If a clan is too afraid to play ranking games, maybe it should stop being a clan in the first place? It should turn into a team, allow those players who want to play ranked games join clans which DO play ranking, and the rest can happily continue their circle jerk.

It's not that ranking makes the game 'too serious'. It's some people that treat ranking games too serious. Competition is fine, but pretending you have everything to lose just because you have a low spot in a ranking on some website, and that it's end of the world - is not.

Maybe it is bullshit when you're an sceptical oldskool veteran, with a seen-all-done-all attitude and a pair of platinum pants to go along with it. Then again, i'd say this kind of attitude is bullshit in the first place.

Well, that's you, not everyone else, obviously.

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The bigger motivation being the cup, not the ranking system. For a cup or league i can understand you want to reach a goal, for ranking i do not.

The goal is being number one in both cases. What i don't understand is why the former is treated more lax than the latter.

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Why? Because in your view ranked games are the only games that matter? So a clan shouldn't be allowed to play wars just because such a system exists?

You don't need to be a ranking clan to play regular wars outside of the ranking. A team can play fw's, a clan that means business can play for ranking. For the record, i don't really care about the ranking at all. I'm just trying to make a point.

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It gets too serious when you want to force a clan to play something they do not want. If the clan normally only plays gametype a and only wants to play gametype b for fun, they should be allowed to do so. And it's not up to anyone else to decide for them imo.
They wanted ranked wars in league a playing gametype a but did not get it. Now there's league b with gametype b and they should be forced to play these ranked?

No one is forcing anyone to do anything, that's the whole point. The whole attitude of being afraid to play something you are unfamiliar with creates this whole aura of serious business. It's not the ranking that is a factor here, it's the brainwave that somehow losing a ranked game is an unredeemable tragedy. It's not. I'd love for people to take from clans like DS, who were not afraid to play EN in a ranked war, or KoD, who participated in a plus TDM league.

Yeah but >mad< have truly true
I think we should make new theread : 'rank or not?'
All clans in all gametypes in e5/r/6 could make community stick together
Just watch what progess did ed, ktr etc... Everybody can plays all ,just need balls in pants

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I'd love for people to take from clans like DS, who were not afraid to play EN in a ranked war, or KoD, who participated in a plus TDM league.

KoD 4EVER !!! :salute: