[B]

ESEA had no shortage of players. Banning for a week or weeks at a time will likely cause the playerbase to shrink. Players will seek out other source servers to play on to get their fix during the ban period, and at that point it'd just be a flip of a coin of whether they'd choose to come back to war lords or not

It would only shrink if people keep their old habits within a new system, for the first few weeks.

+ there is multiple less dickish way to bump your stats up without killing the fun of any1 else involved, I'll make a thread about that today for any statswhore interested.