7 October 2010 - 16:51 CEST
the rules are ambiguous: found on the news page (http://www.ensl.org/articles/633), the phrase "agree to your match server", server singular, implies one server is agreed upon, while the phrase "that's one server for each team" implies that each team picks one server.
to obfuscate things more: on the rules page, it says, "Server agreed on the website must be used for both maps." and then immediately afterward: "Unless the server has been pre-defined on the website, team leaders should contact each other and agree on server(s) to play on. Then each team may decide a server for one map." these two statements quite obviously contradict each other.
the last ENSL season I played, when we (Americans) had to play Europeans, we had to play both maps on Europe, but against Argentina we played one map USA one map Argentina. against Argentina, we had to concede our ping advantage, while against Europeans, they got to exploit it. This is extremely unfair to us, and a very obvious solution is to allow each team to pick one server to play one map on (within reason). unfortunately, the rules are ambiguous in this regard, so I ask again -- are special concessions going to be made for Americans as well?