I'm with you on this Perr, but I don't like the ideal of having to wait to play. I did and still do this with Kali.net Online Gamming
http://kali.net
* It's a free download I believe now....I paid for my membership back in 1995.
Most people who get on to play a game want to do just that, play, not wait for others to gather to join a gamming server to play. I like the ideal of a server currently ongoing in which you can just join it to play. Not go into a server and all of a sudden an admin decides they want a tournament and switch the server over and choose two captains and then try to select teammates, but only a select few get to play and the rest stay in obs or have to drop because they now cannot play a game they came online "TO" play.
I do agree with scrimmages, but this used to be done through teams and it's members, and a server was set aside to do this. With as old as this game is, but still very good, it's harder these days to find this in some areas due to mixed feelings on how some of the players want to play the game. Some just want to play, some want the challenge of two skilled teams to play each other, while some want the challenge to take on the better team. Also, with the lack of servers now hosting, you don't have many choices.
Maybe changing the resolution to better graphics might attract people who never looked into the game, or even attract those who never knew about the game to try it, or bring back old players again, especially now since internet connections are better than they were when Tribes first came out, and graphic cards are better than they were when Tribes was introduced back on November 30, 1998.