impending death of Enemy Territory?

Is Enemy Territory now really dead? But this time really dead? Will we remember 03.12.2009. as the day ET got a brain cancer and rapidly started to deteriorate?
Yesterdays announcement that Clanbase is forcing 5on5 format and ditching 6on6 came as a shock to many but you could have forseen it during last few weeks.
Undoubtedly TosspoT helped ET in a lot of occasions but his decision to make the CIC7 in 5on5 format has killed ET, mark my words, you will see ET dead in a few months, not the kind of dead that we've been reading on cf and a lot of other places since 2005, but the kind of dead that the handfull of people that love the game will start to lose their interest in the game because the game will start to get (even more) boring and the impending death of ET will follow.

First, I somewhat understand why the 5on5 format was chosen for the LAN but I somehow have the feeling that it's not entirely for the reason we may think about, which is to save ET. The bigger and more important reason, as it seems to me, is to ease the organization of the LAN; one player less per team means 1 PC less, which means they now need 10 PC-s instead of 12 which eases the setup and probably helps the horrible schedule keeping that was a characteristic of previous LANs. One player less also means one possible idiot less that will prolongue the torture of setting his PC and settings up to his wishes and when you see that it's 2 teams that play means 2 idiots less.

Secondly, I also somewhat understand why CB might want to switch over to 5on5 format; in their eyes one player less per team means more stability, less inactivity, more teams and more important, more good teams but this can be a sword with two blades and I think the blade that will prevail is the one that's going to cut them, and cut them bad.
Now, when you actually take a look who's in the CB crew atm, it all makes more sense;
* you have Anaconda there who helps organizing the LAN and would also prefer 5on5 but I don't think his influence was important in this decision and he's a nice guy so I'll leave him alone.
* you have mundus there who's a complete idiot and I wouldn't let him admin my sock drawer but I don't know how active he is or how important his opinion is so I'll leave him alone also
* you have Goldorak there who's...well I have no idea who the fuck he is actually but I think I remember him from RTCW so I'll leave him alone since I don't know a lot about him
* you have Rayzed there who's...well again I have no idea whatsoever who the fuck he is so I'll leave him alone
* and finally, you have the self-proclaimed saviour of ET, the cheatbuster who got his cheatbusting reputation by copy/pasting already busted people's details from pbbans, an admin that gets his wins by forfeit for too old and wrong pbguids and THEN plays an OC match with a guy that has a wrong pbguid(irony anyone?), an admin that no-one takes seriously and acts like a kid whenever he gets the chance to, an admin that values other people's opinions as much as other people value his integrity....I could go on but I think we all know there's no need to.

This crew decided to enforce the 5on5 format and to get rid of 6on6 because it will "help the activity and solve the problem of splitting the scene".
You might wonder why do I dislike 5on5 so much, let me tell you why;
Nothing will change regarding the activity, teams that struggled getting 6th will soon strugle getting 5th, teams that had a nice stable team of 6 players now have to tell one to fuck off, ladders won't go superactive because the teams that weren't that interested in playing offis on ladders won't get interested all of a sudden, there won't be a huge boost in the number of teams just because teams have to sod off one player, we will just end up in less players interested in playing.
A lot will change in the gameplay, spam might be reduced(a thing that some players worship so much that you could think they'd start a new religion around LESS SPAM) but it will make the game either much faster or much slower, and now the gap between aimers and brainers will get bigger and the teams with less aim but better organization and tax will no longer have as much chance of beating a team that has better aim, let me give you an example: a lot of teams, when attacking supply 1st stage usually have 2 engis, 3 or 4 meds and/or a panzer, now one of those players will have to be dropped, if you drop a panzer your opponent has more chance of being unannoyed when defending or more chance of defusing when you plant, if you drop the 2nd eng you're lowering your chances of planting the gate, if you drop one medic you're more open to enemy shooting you down without proper response, less revives will lead to a worse attack, meanwhile the opponent will most probably drop 2nd fieldop or 2nd eng which means much less to then at that stage than one class less to the attackers, they can still maintain a decent level of spam towards the attackers while the attackers have less oportunity to spam the defenders, if you want another example take the attack for the depot gates, axis can still spam the oncoming allies but now the allies have less chance to annoy the axis with a field op because, let's face it, you NEED that extra medic and you NEED that extra eng and that applies to all maps.

ET is all about balance and this now changes the balance of spam in the game and that will kill the gameplay as we know it now in 6on6, now it will be mostly in the favour of the defending team and that is the reason ET will die with 5on5 sooner than it would if it remain 6on6, the way ET is played now is perfectly suitable for 6on6 and no other format suits it, not 5on5 nor 7on7.

Now, when a drastical move or a radical cut like this is planned, you'd think the community would be asked right? Well it didn't, it was all decided in a closed room with a round table on which a saviour sat and cried. Not surprised seeing who is in charge nowadays, are you?