Hi Bison.

Well, seeing as how this has been fully discussed for the most part I'd like to throw my two cents in.

  I can't speak for the other WL servers per-se, but I feel as though the Awp usage is balanced in the 24/7 office server. People complain about the fact that the Awp is undoing the balance of the game but I think it goes without saying skilled players will do that more than any weapon. I'm not against the idea of limiting the Awp to losing side only, however I don't know how much this would help in the first place, because if the team is losing generally I would attribute it to players being of lesser skill - which in turn means one of them with an awp won't mean much in the first place.  That is not however to say that this change wouldn't help at all; keep that in mind.

The only real solution I can foresee is better auto-balancing or manual auto-balancing in place to constantly keep the games somewhat even. Generally there is an admin there most of the time so it definitely helps, but even then at the end of the day I don't think you will be able to satisfy the playerbase that frequents this server just because the disparity in skill will be such a separating factor for teams and their scores.

Personally I see this as a band-aid fix to a different problem altogether, which has been said time and time again - team balancing.

anyways best of luck making a decision, see you in the office. =)