I was prepared to type some long statement I can no longer remember, but now it all seems futile after having read that.
The one problem I see is say if it's 3v3, there's a 2v2 battle in team gold's zone, while blues defense is set up and being attacked by one person. The gold attacker dies, but manages to kill blue's defense as well, then one gold could leave the zone and attack blue's empty zone. Actually that's not really even a problem I suppose, just a new way of playing fort that contradicts the old rationality.
@Over - no, it really changes everything.
On the topic of sweepboxes:
Anyways, yeah making arbitrary rules left to players to enforce (and not the game) is bad. So outlawing any kind of tactic is bad, we don't want fort to turn into DF/CTF where people rage if you seal/lock them out of their res zone. It leads to various interpretations of the rules and ultimately a breakdown in the game mode as no one agrees about anything. Not saying if we banned sweepboxes, fort would suck, but it would set a bad precedent.
Reminds me of how people were unhappy with my def, then realized it wasn't even that good and moved on. Same thing will happen with sweepboxes eventually.
On the topic of tournaments:
I like the ladle monthly, sure it would be more prestigious to win if it was a big annual event, but it serves it's purpose, a tool to see who was the best fortress team of the month.
Also there's way too many sumo tournaments, I don't even pay attention to them anymore haha. It's akin to winning a bugfarm tourney, "gz cu at the next one in 50 minutes!" Maybe there should be another fourway fort or fortress brawl. Also isn't fortress cup or whatever it was called coming up?