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Speaking for the original 9 person council, it was all killer no filler dream team. A nice mix from the CoH2/1 community imo, great bunch.

We helped give advice that I feel represented the best hopes and dreams of the community at a vital stage (concept phase), and were for the most part listened to.

I do feel that from there it got a little bit bigger and possibly not as engaging from my own personal perspective at times, but I personally think to have a 70 person 'council' is the worst of both worlds. It's too big to be quality over quantity and engaging, but too small to get meta data that is authoritative.

So open pre-alpha is going to be a lot more useful for them I think.

Made Zaney do it again

@everyone Sad news today that the ML funding system and official series of events is coming to an end.

This does not include the Master League system itself (performance and live tourney records) which I will maintain.

We have accomplished so much with this 14 month run of 5 major tournies, 4 affiliate events, and 5 minor events, and ML5: THE FINALS will now serve as our swan song.

Reasons for ending:

1) ML is at its peak let's quit whilst we're ahead! It's been a blast but let's go out on a high, and not risk over doing it, and going past our peak.

2) Personally I can no longer put in the time in to maintain the financial side of the league, and run huge events myself. I want to concentrate on casting other people's events and doing for-fun streams. I am sorry but a handover of funding system to someone else would be messy and of the people I know I wouldn't want to burden any of them with it!

3) Uneven dev support. With obs mode being down for the last six months, little promotional help, and communication issues. It's not an ideal climate to promote this game with events. Covid, AoE4 development, and 64 bit issues are likely causes.

4) Uneven player skill distribution at present. Isildur is like Luvnest, DevM, Jesulin, Talisman, Jove, at their peak, and that peak is proving very consistent. Basically Isildur won our tourney series as a whole, a huge congrats to him!!! I mean that genuinely.

5) ML4 finalist player caught cheating and fiasco. It just sucks having to put so much effort into protecting the prizepool tbh, and the refs are burnt out themselves. So it's just a bit risky.

HUGE THANKS

Thank you to everyone that financially supported ML you are all legends and I love every single one of you in more ways than one.

The financial support, refereeing, asset creation, casting, playing, training, writing, and engagement has been phenonmenal.

We're a fantastic community when we put our minds to it!

I enjoyed it.

Edit: Still needs to adress the left side fuel tho

Ah so an actual skilful player of merit who was one of the many consulted, maybe Latch is insulted because he would never be considered close to the level where his opinion would be requested.