Basically, your post is "I don't like competitive play because it doesn't fit my tastes." Well, one would assume the latter half of that statement just by knowing the first segment.
Essentially this is what I intended to say, though the goal was not to say "competition sucks" I was simply saying why I will never play comp in tf2.
Playing with a well organized team sounds like alot of fun, its just that I have always been irritated when people feel the need to remove certain aspects of the game. It happens in virtually every game I play online and it kinda bugs me. No powerups in mph, no items in brawl, no crits, damage spread or sandman in tf2.
I hate this for 2 reasons, its completely unfair to the people that learn to use the certain banned items and use them well, and removing these items completely alters the balance of the games. In terms of brawl there are just some characters that are almost useless without items, especially the slow characters.
In terms of tf2 by banning the sandman it prevents scouts from completely ruining ubers yes. But if scouts start running rampant, ruining ubers left and right, (as people seem to think they will) then maybe, I don't know, some team might come up with the bright idea of using a *gasp* engie to stop it. I don't know, maybe not a perfect example but still, I think it illustrates what players tweaking the meta game can do to the balance. Not to say that its only comp that can cause this type of issue, just look at the slew of mods that alter the gameplay significantly more.
Meh, I suppose I just like tf2 as it is, and losing any feature is annoying.
Oh, and the only reason I went so in depth into my opinion of what would be a fun league was in the off chance someone agreed with me and was interested in trying to build that sort of league. Didn't post that as I strongly suspected it would backfire <_<
EDIT: This just occurred to me, no one bother posting after me complaining about the sandman being OP, Im aware of it. <_< Though I think there are other things equally overpowered...so...yeah...