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the most popular tournaments for aa2 are here to find:

http://www.desbl.de/index.php?page=Portal

Sure, you're right but the major case people don't play longrange anymore is round times set hilariously long combined with lack of knowledge of the map and open area behaviour. Time goes on and you can hardly meet someone who knows things, who raised and learnt the game on those maps when level was so much higher than nowadays. Problem lays in psyche of people, they join open area map, get killed pretty fast, that happens few rounds, the guy gets bored and leaves the server after 30 min. Doesn't surprise me to be honest. Main problem is Hospital and acog4x raised community, people who have never learnt how to control M16 and M249 recoil, people who are amazed that you shoot in one point when you have 100% health and cem. Pity that you can't do much about it Bart

I'm for minimizing round times to the logical maximum. On pub or matches, doesn't matter. As for me on publics, I prefer to play assault, it's easier to score heavy imho, faster rounds, more action, more movement, more kills, more fun. As for competitive gameplay, I've played 'a few' matches... In this game nothing works better than good organized rush, in cqb or open area, it just doesn't matter. Of course you know that very well , but I mean long rounds have no sense at all. 95% of maps in aao are one sided, so it comes down to good rush, 0 or 1. I've always laught even at good teams trying to play slow eg. at JTRC Farm Raid and got picked one by one 6 rounds in a row not trying to change anything. It's a state of mind...        

The only time I do obj. Is when I am up against an out an out camper tunnel rat. I am not the best at Killing rats.
And some rats are exceptionly good. So I play my game an do obj. Just to expose them as camper full of fear , that would rather lose than be killed coming out. Same with urban. Dont play to there strength, play to yours.

Bart, the idea of deleting private servers is not only to play other maps, this can be done already even WITH  private servers. It could be done to reduce power given to server admins.

Like Pit said, server admins have too much power. It is a fact.
If I want I can :
1) Make a server,
2) Join my server in the morning with a noob account (like raw does) so people join.
3) I put as map Bridge Crossing.
4) In the afternoon my server is full, that is certain, and then I can decide to ban one single player because he was killing me too much (happens with zibi, Im not saying hes clean or anything, dont go off topic, just an exemple)
5) The player is fucked, because there is only one server on bridge crossing. He tries to fill up another server, but it doesn't work. The guy only likes bridge crossing (again, it's his right, for exemple Eliz)
6) Next day I do the same
7) The guy stops playing AA because he was banned on 1 server by a retard server admin who was happy he finally had some powers in life.

Hope it is clear now

I never said hacking is "right". I never said it is some kind solution. I never said it should be allowed. I just explained the background and I simply oppose to your idea of claiming that I'm some kind of a monster that eats AAO babies.

It's funny how you try to protect your "pro" friend. One day assist gets a much better AC than nowadays, and suddenly many of such respected "pros" will vanish. But it's nice to see that at least you can express yourself in an elegant way. But I'm not fooled by this. Not of all the hackers are a script kiddies.

I really put some effort in this because my 6th sense makes me worry about all of us since a few weeks.
Something drastically new must be done, fast, otherwise... 

PS : I agree, the progressive way appears to be the most appropriate one, under the condition
that we start fresh new with 10-20 listed OAS servers only and gradually list additional private servers
on a defined pace so the baby can grow healthy again