My thoughts on the H2H and CS.

[Steel God]

A correction of an erroneous statement, and a comment.

First the correction. The H2H System was not designed for CM. The H2H system was created almost a decade ago by a player named "The Dragon of PanTang" and was created SOLELY for use with CS games. The H2H concept was adopted by Foul for use on the OpC Ladder only after PanTang had gone inactive and no longer supported H2H Productions. Foul later stepped up to offer H2H to all ladder communities here at the Blitz. If players on in today's CS Community don't want to support H2H, that is their decision, but the system was designed with CS in mind.

As far as supporting H2H goes, I personally have always been of a mind that scenario designers are almost more important to sustaining the PBEM hobby than players. In that vein, I have always encouraged scenario development at the Blitz, and therefore H2H. Since the earliest days we have always awarded bonus points for scenario designers who made their efforts available, and we still do; and in the recent past we have also rewarded the efforts of the folks who play test the scenarios for the designers. If those rewards need to be increased to be commensurate with other efforts I have no problem doing so. There are SO MANY ways to contribute to a community's health, and design and test are among those, and I have always been a proponent of supporting those who support the hobby. If players just don't want to use H2H, I don't have a problem with that either, it's a tool, it's there for use if you find it helpful, and if you don't, by all means, don't use it.