Sylar came to us and expressed genuine interest in helping to solve these issues and to generally help make Splinterlands a better product, and we felt (after a number of discussions) that this would be a good opportunity to finally tackle a difficult and longstanding problem.

I wasn't aware the Iproto was interested in possibly joining the Splinterlands team, but if that is the case I would be happy to have a discussion with him and/or any other talented community members to see if there is a fit either now or in the future.

>  if the team fails with this decision, it's very likely that many users will loose all their trust in it

I think this is true of pretty much everything that we do. We always try to make the best decisions that we can toward the long term success of the product, but we will inevitably make mistakes along the way. We are attempting to move quickly with decisions but also to identify mistakes quickly and change course when needed. We'll see how it all works out.