ORIGINAL: IL_BOW_MAN
A better suggestion IMO would be to make participants post in order to be in the contest. They should have to respond to their teams threads or something and not just go AWOL with no way to contact them. I am willing to bet many teams had members that just popped in for a day and signed up never to return.
I do believe this was done. Teams were picked prior to season and then alternates were place in for teams that couldn't contact members of their team. If you guys didn't contact your team members prior to the alternates being put in, it is just as much your fault as the other guy. I specifcally remember teams crying that they couldn't contact people that signed up. Then Rob supplied a date at which he would put in the alternates and then they were assigned.
I guess it should be later then because it seems a lot of teams had members fall off the face of the earth.......yours included. With people that want to participate and couldn't........that is a shame.