So after the recent PEA drama and the video from Richard Lewis on exclusivity and learning about how teams have formed into groups, with the 3 main ones being PEA (CLG, C9, Liquid, Immortals, CoL, TSM and NRG), WESA (Fnatic, NV, NiP, G2, VP, Na’vi, mouz) and RFRSH (although not as bad - GODSENT, Heroic, Astralis, Norse), I asked myself the question - why don’t sports have problems like this?The difference is federations and associations. The structure of sports mostly goes as follows - you have an international federation (FIFA) that is responsible for creating a common set of rules and organising international competitions (such as The World Cup), then you have national federations as affiliates of the international one and clubs as affiliates of the national federations. If a club was to misbehave it answers to the national federation and if a national federation misbehaves it answers to the international federation and if the international federation misbehaves then well then you're a bit screwed, until an even higher power such as the government step in. *cough* FIFA *cough*Anyway the problem in CS is there is no federation like organisation, there is no one set of rules - for example when the LG roster switched to the SK org that was illegal under Eleague's rules but perfectly legal under ECS and ESL's rulesets. If an organisation (or a group of organisations) misbehave they have no one to answer to.This is where the problem comes from, a lot of these organisations realise they have no one to answer to and want to become the organisation to answer to. The only time Valve (CS's only current higher power) has stepped in is when something illegal occurred. This leads the desire for a true overreaching association for CS to be created.Associations would be formed for each region (eg Europe, North America, Asia) and any team which qualifies for one of the major leagues (Eleague, ECS, and EPL) is admitted into the association for as long as they remain in the league (to prevent teams such as Attax keeping power if they suddenly drop off). Each organisation will have one player and one org representative (meaning players and the orgs have a 50/50 power split) and will elect representatives for the global association.The global association would consist of representatives from major event organisers, association representatives and Valve. The association would create a clear rulebook for tournaments saying what teams could and couldn't do and help prevent oversaturation of tournaments by better timetabling out the year and forcing communications between event organisers. If a team was to break any of the rules whilst playing in these competitions they would be punished by the association, ensuring fair and consistent punishment.There would also have to either be some sort of appeal process for new major organisers to join (as many of the big organisers Eleague, ECS, WESG are new themselves)or for set one off LAN dates to be arranged, which companies such as Dreamhack/Epicenter could appeal to be given or we would have to prevent new organisers from entering the scene - its overcrowded enough as it is already. For one off LANs such as majors etc it would also have to be made explicitly clear that not only those teams represented in the associations can play but other teams as well to ensure a healthy ecosystem.Overall, this would stop the exclusivity deals from occurring and prevent the oversaturation of the CSGO scene. However for this to actually happen it would probably require Valve to step in, which remains unlikely.~ Josh "Jabzilla" BosmanYoutube: http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHLkSikpOtCdzLoVB-qSemw