So Garian blanket banned -|nQa|- (or at least all of us on the server) @ 8:40 eastern today. It went like this from my perspective: Map switches to turbine, Garian types "banning chimpo and serenity brb", I ask, "why?", he says "because I don't like you."
A few minutes later we all get banned for team stacking.
Anyways it's true that there were four (or was it five?) of us on the same team, but I find this blanket ban kind of ridiculous for the following reasons:
A: I got zero warning or chance from Garian to avoid said bannage. Responding with "I don't like you," is not a warning. If he had asked me to switch I would have.
B: I have a super fast computer and load the map before anyone else. The teams are almost always empty so I always reflexively join blue. Ssince I come in so early I have no control over who joins what team afterwards, and if teams end up stacked that's not my fault and I'm willing to switch if needed.
C: The previous round teams were not stacked so it's not like we're always constantly joining the same team.
D: At the time of the banning the other team was winning. Yeah, so why ban people for stacking teams if they aren't even doing well?
E: It's not like Garian has been making an effort to make his team better. All I saw him doing today was running around as fireaxe pyro. Maybe his team is doing worse because they have one player being useless.
F: I and nQa are interested and invested in your server and community. Heck, we've started the thing up on numerous occasions. I remember I helped brush start up a pyro tennis match one night (until Garian shot it down). We make a concious effort not to stack, although sometimes it's going to happen, it's just how things are. We were just playing steel and we all auto'd. Everyone ended up on the same team except for me.
Now I don't chill on your forums much so I'm not up to date on previous incidents, but I'd say the banning is not only rash and unreasonable but also, in the long run, bad for your server. It will certainly be up a lot less.
So yeah, please reconsider.