The only thing I can say is:
Better to have new cups or ladders or whatever than the proAS and iAS leagues still up.
I mean. My proAS clan (B!P) retired from the league in May but Chianti has kept scheduling and arranging (in other words: wasting time) for a league which is dead (not to mention iAS). And as chianti, also other arrangers kept up the work for their clans. New schedulings mean new matches, new matches mean active people. I think, though, that it feels quite nonsense to play proAS and iAS matches, coz there's no competition and no interest at all. 1 or 2 clans keep arranging and playing for what?Actually nothing. I think we should direct this interest in something actually competitive and which is worthy of playing and wasting time with. Not to mention that something new always makes people more interested, maybe for a little time(like 2v2 league), but maybe not. I think these ideas deserve a chance.
I know that I'm a total rusty noob, that I barely join IRC, that I'm deeply inactive, since i've lost interest in playing ut and also playing "unfair games", whose result is already decided, before u even start the match (altho,tbh, the 3 divisions kinda helped with this) due either to ping or skill differences. But indeed a draft system would make the game quite more interesting imo, and the fact that me (an inactive cunt) is saying this, explains quite a lot.
PS:
This is a little out of topic:
I used to play often on dog stdas and many people (yes, total noobs) ask for clans or are on ut 24/7. Especially during the last year (2008) I used to teach some people I met there the basic tricks and launches and give them some tips (also about the user.ini settings). Of course, I also told them about the league and most of them are now active members of the league. I remember that when I was a "dog stdas player" I didnt even know about the existence of this league, altho I used to play ut many hours in the evening. I remember that my ex clan leader, Eas, was told by an UTA member that there was a league and then we signed up -=LAG=-. That's how the league can keep living. And we should try to spread tricks and stuff to have more competitive games (which wouldn't maybe even take so much time, as I remember me and my -=LAG=- mates used to practice 2\3 hours per day to find the aimes of the launches we were interested in using (LOL WE SPENT DAYS ON THE FUCKING DARK LAUNCH
)).In all honesty, I think that even Bart would start playing some matches if they were thrilling ones most of the time. There is no reason to show up if u know u'll lose 8-0 and no reason to keep playing for new clans, which get beaten iteratively and get depressed and lose interest. I know that making clans with approximately same skills would mean killing the ones who are still up, and me myself wouldn't like playing with some people I don't know or I don't like. So I think that the up mentioned method would be the only one to increase the interest in NEW (and maybe even old) players.