[HOOP]

4.0 may just be too heavy for newbies and many others to get up to.
painting, decaling, gathering figures from the different venues are enough work as is, and expensive! now for someone to have to bring there guys up to weight to compete is yet another time consuming, expensive aspect to get involved in.
without learning about and finding lead tape, puddy, etc. one would pretty much be relegated to just FF.com Reggie figures to compete. and that would nt be right cause buzzball, miggle and custom figs offer nice stuff as well.

i liked the experience of 4.0 better, but to involve most of the community, 3.2 - 3.6 might be the best thing. more can be involved(and isnt that the goal) , less work ( time + $$$ ) on your team.

but you know what, we can go on about this forever because there are too many different opinions from all over the nation. and though we chat on the board, we all dont reallly know eachother very well. though we talk on the phone with eachother, we all dont know eachother very well. so right there, it will be a little harder for total harmony because when you are actually friends with someone, it is far easier to communicate, stand your ground or be submissive when discussing ideas. this will come in time as we grow, but right now, there arent enough of us just yet. everyone can not be satisfied right now, it just cant happen, now. perhaps in the future, if we keep trudging along for unity, then we can come together with universal inclusion of the members and play some ball. and that should be some sort of 3.3 standard (give or take a .gram or two). once we rock with this for some time and bring all in, then we can break off into our house Monopoly rules and have varied weight for different tourneys. because by then, mission #1 will be complete - promote the hobby enough so that when our generation moves on, there is a whole community of MFers outthere to step up and keep it going.

SCOTT