JSL -S2 very disappointing

The Ladder Season-2 started on the 1st and ended very disappointing for me on the 20th of December 2006.

Somehow I have the feeling that there are only 400 competitive players on (europe) of witch 70 players are semi-active playing only Tournaments and ladders where you have a good chance to meet skilled players with names we all know out of our scene news.

With other words Broodwar is very small in comparison to what we all see and read about.

I get the same feeling when I play public with random allies on europe. I always seem to be playing the same 300 players depending on what day and time I go online. Even when i surf the channels I'm always seeing the same Names AFK.

I wrote a small VB bot script to check 6 public channels by parking silent-bots for 2 Month that only logged names and counted how many times returning name were sighted.

My personal conclusion is:

Broodwar looks and feels big, but it's small and only getting more concentrated organized and specialized for these 400 semi-active competitive players. The rest just play BW every now and then and read forum & portal news. But in general BW is dieing faster then most people and BW-fans want to believe

So even if say WGT would start up you'd get like 10'000 new sign-ups, but only around 400 players of each realm would be actually using the Platform.

Broodwar in West- europe is a lot of HOT-AIR of wishful thinking!

Even if you try to fill a BW only lan you'll end up begging for players while the CS lan a week ago was ram packed full with people with 100's not getting a seat.

My resume for JSL:
Stop my open B.net JSL Ladder project and call it a "dead duck".

Lucky for me that nothing really costed me any cash and all was done on a low budget using free- domains, webspace database - system. Instead of starting off with a Private BW Server and all the hassle. I'm glad in a way not to be lumbered with anual running costs.

It works, can be used and will be reseted, but I will not overwork V.1.6 with new features and a new design or give any admin support or offer any more jackpots in the future.

I had over 400+ ppl in channel and 300+ Individuales IP's on the website but couldn't find more then 4 active players at one and the same time, that actually supported JSL by simply playing and uploading a replay.

It was fun getting the ladder to function 99% bug-free and that is good enough for me.
This was my last BW Web project and I will enjoy my future BW life like most 99.95% of you by Spamming Forums , watching Kor-Pro replays, downloading the latest VOD's as well as watching all the live Streams on my TV-set as long as they are FREE and stay available.

Call it GOSU Spam-leach and my contribution to BW.
The Ladder is dead, long life the Ladder!