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This is a rant, in part because i'm having doubts in regards to the nature of the nwl, i'm sorry if this is a bit outspoken as bracket manager and a mod. Yet I feel to an extent its important for me to set an example for what it is to be a 19 and an XP-Off player/twink, now most people would say that means being the best you can be at your class, mastering the meta, becoming one of the elite core 19s, its actually something i've seen newer twinks aspire to be, that is part of their motivation to put in the real time and effort it takes some to master the 19s meta and game play, its a hard nutshell to crack for some, the current meta is something i have not personally had the time to master, and i can honestly blame that on preference, I would rather help run the community and master my ability at that, than on the battlefield, so for my own enjoyment, that's how I choose to be a 19, although i do enjoy the occasional warsong gulch or arena, but that is far from the point of this post.
what I've seen over the 10 years as a wow player has been that people who twink tend to have a preference for perfection, that's what the desire to be completely bis comes from, that's why a pair of gloves that has a few better stat at a twink bracket costs so much more than even significantly better items than average items do at end game, there is novelty to it, and that way of thinking has embedded itself in our community, it has always been about being the best player around. In more recent times we have gained a fair bit of organization. It has been my goal as someone who helps manage various structures to embody that same 19s perfectionist mindset in what we do outside of the battlefield and in my planning and execution, and i've done my absolute best to manage The NWL,GG19, and help with other things, but it is a serious personal investment for me, as an esports league that has players from the far reaches of the globe, I get messages literally 24/7. This is something I spend a lot of time doing, to say the least, so i have to ask myself the question; is it worth it? Time is more valuable than currency after all.
Perhaps this is the same dilemma HB experienced with his plans to help initiate a major twitch movement within the bracket. After all, i'm pretty sure he and I both think that the time and effort ourselves and others put into it CAN be worth it, but we cannot do more alone. We need the average community member to do more, and we are not sure that people are interested in that at this point.
My problem is that if myself and a few others seek to embody the 19s mentality that i mentioned, and others who participate do not, what am I to think? I guess i think people don't take it seriously, I've done my best to adapt the league to the community preference, and I'm more than willing to keep doing that, but how can i take this seriously if others don't, I'm not going to name names but how can I invest this much personal resource into something that apparently I shouldn't take serious? I have yet to answer that question, maybe HB was right about abandoning the professionalism, or as grizzle once said "pseudo-professionalism". That may make things easier, I'm not sure if that's even appealing to me, because i value the skills I develop as i do what i do. I know that in a perfect world, most others would actually start embody the kind of mindset that constantly gets perpetuated in this community within The NWL, I'm not sure it will happen, and I'm unsure of the future of 19s if people keep taking our activities for granted as well.
Well that's it, sorry for writing a journal page community @ thread, and the tldr.
what I've seen over the 10 years as a wow player has been that people who twink tend to have a preference for perfection, that's what the desire to be completely bis comes from, that's why a pair of gloves that has a few better stat at a twink bracket costs so much more than even significantly better items than average items do at end game, there is novelty to it, and that way of thinking has embedded itself in our community, it has always been about being the best player around. In more recent times we have gained a fair bit of organization. It has been my goal as someone who helps manage various structures to embody that same 19s perfectionist mindset in what we do outside of the battlefield and in my planning and execution, and i've done my absolute best to manage The NWL,GG19, and help with other things, but it is a serious personal investment for me, as an esports league that has players from the far reaches of the globe, I get messages literally 24/7. This is something I spend a lot of time doing, to say the least, so i have to ask myself the question; is it worth it? Time is more valuable than currency after all.
Perhaps this is the same dilemma HB experienced with his plans to help initiate a major twitch movement within the bracket. After all, i'm pretty sure he and I both think that the time and effort ourselves and others put into it CAN be worth it, but we cannot do more alone. We need the average community member to do more, and we are not sure that people are interested in that at this point.
My problem is that if myself and a few others seek to embody the 19s mentality that i mentioned, and others who participate do not, what am I to think? I guess i think people don't take it seriously, I've done my best to adapt the league to the community preference, and I'm more than willing to keep doing that, but how can i take this seriously if others don't, I'm not going to name names but how can I invest this much personal resource into something that apparently I shouldn't take serious? I have yet to answer that question, maybe HB was right about abandoning the professionalism, or as grizzle once said "pseudo-professionalism". That may make things easier, I'm not sure if that's even appealing to me, because i value the skills I develop as i do what i do. I know that in a perfect world, most others would actually start embody the kind of mindset that constantly gets perpetuated in this community within The NWL, I'm not sure it will happen, and I'm unsure of the future of 19s if people keep taking our activities for granted as well.
Well that's it, sorry for writing a journal page community @ thread, and the tldr.
