"experienced community members have been left on the side lines"
This I would have to strongly disagree with.
I disagree, I was left to run the ESL section since July 2013 on my own with no support. Conveniently a few months before this was announced I was forced to resign from all of my admin duties on ESL by their business director even though I had stopped working on CoH2 because of constant Jam tomorrow promises for nearly two years.
The draft Go4 rules I initially drafted back in 2014 were not implemented, nor was there ANY consultation. (As you can see I last amended them back in 2014)
To be honest there wasn't any discussion, it was more a case of lets wait for IpKai to tire himself out so he gets fed up, goes away and stops bothering us (Relic Entertainment). The same tactic that was implemented with TFN with their launch tournament, the same that happened to the alpha testers that produced a massive bug data base with attribute editor fixes only to be sidelined.