[R&S] Amateur TeamLeague

4) There's a new rule about random players. I'm just requiring them to have a set race (race picking included if applicable) each week in order to keep the games more balanced and ultimately fair.

On November 07 2015 02:05 ggrrg wrote:



If anything playing random is hugely unfair towards your opponents in my opinion.

Considering the fundamentally different build orders each race has in some matchups not knowing what race you are against puts you at a huge disadvantage.
I cannot think of a single build order that is viable for Protoss in both PvZ and PvT. Basically, toss would need to guess correctly and blind counter or else he is absurdly far behind.
It is not much different for Z or T (think ZvZ vs ZvP, TvP vs TvZ). Even if you go for some really safe build against random you are very likely to have put yourself at such a disadvantage that you will probably be stomped by any mid-game timing even if executed in a poor fashion.
Additionally, random removes other key components from a weekly league such as strategy planning and the ability to practice for your match.

The league already barely has any restrictions on race selection as it is with the possibilty to only choose specific matchups to play or pick your race on a weekly basis.