Surely there will be whining and accusing going on here, but here is what happened in admins point of view. Maps were decided, yand3x kicked fury, ptrip and dm3 while eternal removed duel5, dm2 and ztn3. Maps left to play: match1, q2dm1, q2rdm2. Choosing of servers started. My first proposion was to choose most equal server and play all maps there, but yandex proposed for home-away, and so we started looking for those servers. After a while yandex agreed on playing on proppfrag and eternal on playground. As for the 3rd map, we decided to come to irc after 2 maps and find the most equal server we can find.
Troubles getting started cos yandex had to go get his girldfriend from somewhere, eternal said hes going to buy some "snus".. but eventually we got to server and started. Pings were for eternal: 40 - 45, for yandex from 50 to 60. They were kinda stable till the last minutes, when yandex had lag and his ping rise up to 80. Eternal wins the map 17-8.

Next map q2dm1 on playground, where yandex had clear ping advantage on eternal. Yandex had ping from 22 to 30. Eternals ping was kinda stable in little bit under 60. Beginning was domination of yandex, but eternal got in to the game after a while and closed the cap, to 12 - 11, but then died with low health at lower rocket launcher and yandex was able to increase his lead to comforting 23-15 win.

To irc then, last map, where to play. Yandex giving ips after ips and we went through many, didnt count, but MANY servers, when we finally decided to play on hot.ee. - Surprise, server doesn't have q2rdm2. All servers where yandex had advantage, were too good for him, since we tried to find as equal server as possible. Closest to equal we found, was 2.0 in finland, where we then connected and started gibbing. Ping advantage went for eternal this time with his ~35 to yandex's 55. Both players had some packet loss but since this was best server we could find, we wouldn't let that bother. On game, eternal had upper hand all the time altho yandex was able to get him on low healt several times. With 6 minutes and 45 seconds left, on situatin 18-2 for eternal, yandex decided to leave his team giving the map to eternal. Reason: laggy.

As for the other things that were going on in irc while the game was on..

in #edl, ph started whining about ping advantage for yandex on playground and stated that rules were not equal for swedes and parted channel. Here, I lost my nerves, since we all had been TRYING to find servers that are good for both players and WITHOUT ANY favoring for either one of them: I banned him. Quick act from me, with little thinking I would have done otherwise, but what is done is done. Stuff got mad over this, and parted channel saying: Ban me from parting the channel. I didn't.
Some talking was going on on the channel after that, I removed ph:s ban since I knew it wasn't deserved, act of temper without thinking.
[OK]Pogo announced bit later, that both [lm]mikko and Stuff were going to leave the league for that ping advantage in playground for yandex. For sure some reason was for my behavior when banning ph after his whining, but only they know the truth. What I know for sure is this:
<idleph> so sucky rules, always worse for the swedes <idleph> admins sucks

Consult eternal, consult yandex. Ask them if it was admins fault that we couln't find server with 0 pings for both, or atleast equal ones. Both players agreed on playing home - away, both players agreed on using proppfrag and playground, both players agreed playing last map on 2.0.

ADMINS FAULT?

Sure it was, how could it be otherwise. Admins are easy to accuse.

If Stuff and mikko are really going to part the league for that one map on playground, where eternal didn't have ping as good as yandex did, then go ahead, I dont really mind. It's just not good for the q2scene and least of all for EDL.

However both players, eternal and yandex were acting with respect to each other, excluding yandex's part from last map with 6:47 left on time.

After talking with eternal, he said that none of this wasn't admins fault. I agree, only fault there is you can blaim me on, was banning ph after my short temper. - Reason to leave league? Think that.