Well here is my rant. CR honestly is not a hard job because the forums stuff like discussing fse topics, muting or banning people, and moderating your section of the forums isn't that hard. The only hard part is having a impact in changing the community since there isn't much a CR can do anymore since NA comp scene is almost dead and linebattle scene is okay. I agree with Wind & Herishey that anyone who said they can make a "major" impact to the community during their term is retarded since very few CRs has made a "major" impact in EU or NA.
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Wind I get you are trying to get more casual people to use FSE since most of the NA active guys on the forums are the comp players. However, I tried that in 2016 with multiple people in 2eChef, Weast, and 61e and had little success. It is hard to convince those casual players to use the forums when the only reason they could use it is for off topic stuff, officers requesting units for an event, or posting on their regiment's thread since they have no reason to post on tournament threads. So it is useless for casual players to really get on forums unless they want to socialize with the community. If you want to try it then go and good luck.
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The Comp scene is dead which hurt the NA community quite a bit since the really active players in the NA community and the forums are the comp players. There are many reasons why it is dead but I believe one of the main factor is that after NANWL S6 comp regiments didn't do a good job of trying to bring new players to the competitive scene (correct me if I am wrong). After NAPL the comp scene was on its last legs before Irish and I (Fair to say) revived the comp scene back by making our regiments and brought new or older players back to the community. The other main factor is bandwagons. I know bandwagons has been going on since 71st started the trend in 2014 (correct me if I am wrong) but look what happen when bandwagons were around. 58e was the only really league 1 regiment around besides 63e with help from 71st players to boast their melee skills to even give them a chance. Another example is 2017 when 3e reformed after 6te disbanded and the only two real league 1 regiments were LG and 3e. We had no balance in the community and honestly the worst competition we had in NA league wise since S5. Shit it was hard in NANWL S7 & 8 to pick regiments in either league because there was such a skill gap between league 1 & 2 regiments because every good player wanted to join the best melee regiments available out there. Of course there are other reasons like people getting bored, having a life, etc. My point for this is that people inability to bring many people back or new players to the comp scene and bandwagons is part of the reason why the NA comp scene is dead today.
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This pissed me off the most to see but in NA we have the same damn event Mon, Tues, and Thurs-Sat. What i mean is that on those days regiments host the basic linebattle of line arty, skirms, and cav. The only other type of event NA has is a Siege event the 54th host every Sunday. We need variety of events in NA instead of the same stupid basic ass linebattle that for some reason people keep playing 4 times a week. I am sure others will agree with me that we need different types of events like Conquest, Line Only, historic events, or 2v2/3v3 events. I talked to pubs beginning of this years about joining 93rd for my casual line and some of them told me no because of the fact that they always go to the same event every week which gets very repetitive & boring. Overall, I just want people hosting events to mix it up for once and give a new event that is different from the ones we are already hosting 5 times a week.
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In my opinion to be a CR you would need to have some connections in both the comp & casual regiments in order to hear about possible issues in those parts of the community. To be fair I haven't really been in involved in the causal scene since 2eChef died in 2016 but I still have connections with leaders of causal regiments & armies which you guys should have as well if you don't already. Jake and Uni has huge connections to the casual scene compared to you guys. My point about this topic is that a CR that is suppose to watch and listen to the NA community should know the casual and comp scene somewhat.
Sorry for this long rant but I just felt like addressing stuff from the past and present from my prespective since I been in the casual and comp scene for quite some time. I moved this from the voting booth to here so some of my points is off of what Wind or Theo said in the voting booth thread.
1.) I was talking about competitive players that don't use FSE and should be apart of the community, but it would be cool to see if we could get casuals on FSE and socializing with us but yeah it's harder with them.
2.) Fuckin' bandwagons, warned you all.
3.) There was a lot bigger selection of events back then. Less players means not enough interest to host these linebattles. And interest in hosting events is even dwindling down hard since there ain't no 200 man lbs like there used to be. I do miss the variety very much though.
4.) CR is really a forum position in its purest form, so really knowing who is who in the casual community is a non factor imo.
