Posted by Thallen

Nah, it wasn't sarcastic. It doesn't look fun to participate in. I don't blame any team for using defensive sparrers, and those are generally international players who delay because it's extremely difficult to be offensive with that ping. I think a strong team needs a few defensive sparrers for it to be balanced. It's not a requirement, but I do think it helps.
Just using my team as an example, Eko and MK are defensive sparrers. People might not think they are higher-tier sparrers like Brett or Dante, but they bring a defensive style that gives the offensive players freedom to rush and do their own thing without the entire team getting wiped out after the first minute.

I just think it's a really boring strategy for any team's criteria to be "you must delay to join this team." Not because delay is some advantage and not because it makes them a better team, but because the strategy of 7 people turtling and boring their opponent to death is just lame to me. It forces the opposing team to initiate the spar and take on all of the risk. A spar isn't a spar if two people refuse to fight each other. It's not a spar if one player is forced to make all of the offensive moves and attack into their opponent, either.

Anyway, it's probably you guys' fault at the end of the day. You guys hated on and flamed people who delayed since forever, and now they actually have the option of joining together and being as boring, defensive, and laggy as they want. No matter how the rule is changed, that won't be prevented. The fact that the community has insulted and mistreated them for something they can't even control brings them together.
iDevices who don't delay aren't nearly as cooperative as that, otherwise good ones like Prime, Kevin, Comyt, Kouji, Fro, Cookie, Noss, Junior, Vlad, and others would have come together a long time ago.

Posted by Drea

using a VPN is a major problem in general not just in spar, I've seen people avoid IP bans by using a VPN connection. Maybe there's a way that people on a VPN connection can be kicked off the server? Is there a way to identify when people are on a VPN connection, other then them just lagging/delaying?