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To kill a Mocking Bird.

Posted by Sunman^ at 17:05, 2/2/2005

A Governing body is it feasible or just plain fiction?

After obtaining some positive feedback with regards my last column, I thought I would try my hand at another.
In no way do I want to put the infamous del` through another one of my dreary eyed opening paragraphs, as I have felt his wrath once and do not wish too on a second occasion. :D So without further ado it’s onto the matter at hand.

I know a lot of comments are put forward mostly containing the authors beliefs to what is directly hindering the scene today, but do we ever see a solution to the proposed argument?

I’d like to talk about a governing body and how it may/may not be introduced as a coherent entity. Just like the last column, these views are my own and in now way do I expect you gullible people to indiscreetly start worshiping them :)

Why have a body.
Well simply put why not? I mean the benefits are there to be reeked. One body that makes the most important decisions the uk scene has to offer. No more rants on sites, no more tarnished reputations. If you have a problem you go directly to the body, which in turn will take note of your claim and review it. Above processing the claim and looking at the evidence the body’s rule is final. If you are not satisfied with the body’s decision then you can take it to an appeals commission who in turn will have a look at it and decide if an appeal is to be permitted. If an appeal is granted, as new evidence has been obtained since or some malarkey which has been overlooked has come up, then the body will have a look once again. On this ultimate decision the body’s finding is final.

How would we decide who gets on the commission?
Simply put, run a voting system on ukt.

Now some imminent questions spring to mind no doubt.
Who would take the time out of their busy schedule to do such a tedious task?
But I put it to you would it really be tedious?
Say you have a total of 5 impartial, well respected members in the uk scene whose job it is to review the evidence and on completion of said data submit it to a higher body in the form of a ‘judge’ so to speak, who then casts judgement on the ‘player’, ‘clan’ or ‘game’ at hand.

Then you have an appeals commission made up once again of say the same type of structure mentioned in the above paragraph. 5 more well respected, unbiased admins and 1 judge overlooking them all.

However, what’s in it for us the body?
Okay this is the biggest question at hand; I know most people wouldn’t have the time or dedication for this task at hand, not to mention do it on a ‘good Samaritan’ basis. So the only logical solution I could come up with was to make the many leagues the uk has to offer pay-to-play.
I know there is a lot of controversy on the subject as many teams feel
“what is the point in paying if numerous amounts of teams will cheat to get one over on us?”

But with this system in place, any suspicious results proven to be void of legitimate play would be over turned and the team and player cheating banned from that said league for good.

So, you would need to give the body some revenue mostly generated by say all online uk pay-to-pay leagues in order to entice them into doing a task as such.

Now I am not senile. (that remains to be seen) I know it is not an easy task at hand, Nor do I expect the above to be implemented into public and or pcw play. However, in a league format, I for one strongly believe that the above is a necessity.

In order for this to work, you would need 2 admins on each league game, one watching each team, updated anti-cheat software (all be it not 100% secure) but no harm whatsoever having it, cd springs to mind, and last but not least each player recording POV demos.

Any player(S) accused of being suspect and not having recorded a pov demo to prove otherwise will be putting his team in jeopardy, in the way of penalty points and or default loss in the previous obtained victory.

Think about this for one second, no teams b***hing repeatedly in the public eye for the world to see, asking for post matches to be turned over, instead it’s handled professionally and swiftly, It would propel the scene to a level never before attained in terms of professionalism and hopefully would catch on and stop the constant influx of cheats with regards to online league play.

Like I said just an Idea I’ve been dwelling on over the past week or so, something that could help the scene or something that could simply just trod along unnoticed like this column :)
I know I have not touched on every aspect, but I don’t want to drag this on any more. I have left so much out but with a bit of work it could be talked upon and maybe even compiled as a feasible project.

By the way I’d be happy to help in any way plausible with regards to the above implementation or something along the lines of it.

Good day to you all. SunZzZz