Ralphis
It DOES involve penises
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Anyway, as to prevent any source port wars on account of what we've been using allow me to give a little bit of history of the IDL.
When I began planning for IDL in the Winter of 2006 Odamex was just announced but not even released yet (first release dated January 18th, 2007). When I began the league it had 8 teams and 24 active players (3 per team). The winter 2007 season was basically a test to see if a league of this kind could be successfully run and how, if at all, the community would accept or embrace the idea. My own personal hopes were that Odamex was going to be ready for competitive play by the summer and perhaps the league could move in that direction.
Unfortunately, Odamex was not ready for competitive play by the summer (and still isn't for that matter).
This left me with the choice of either not continuing to run the IDL or continue to expand because I now had over fifty people that wanted to sign up for the second season. Though IDL is played on ZDaemon, the servers we've used are private, unadvertised to the master, and donated by server admins who also see merit in the idea and the league.
The IDL has now had three highly successful seasons and hopefully will have a fourth this summer. When the IDL was created, it was created with the primary purpose of bringing players who would not normally associate themselves with each other together and strengthening the DOOM player base. The fact that players became more competitive and practiced more, etc etc was simply a byproduct.
The IDL was created to bring people together, not divide them. Following in this spirit, there's no reason to cause a source port argument in any capacity here.
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05-03-08 07:29 
