Natural said:No but KP/Thrax have 8 years of combined experience with Tribes. How many did DaveG have?
Dave G. may not have had experience with Tribes, or rather, the Tribes competitive community in particular, but before T2 he had competently managed several other games, including my personal favorite Heavy Gear 2.
He may not have been able to appease the hardcore competition crowd, but he was far from an inexperienced ignoramus when it came to managing these things, although he made some poor decisions in such issues as the release of T2 and subsequent patching. To me, those shortcomings were far more important than his vision of a slowed-down, defense-heavy Tribes game, which likely would have been water under the bridge with the release of T2 Classic had the release not been so badly bungled.
Thrax and KP may have experience with the Tribes community, but the full extent of their competence at actually controlling the future of the franchise remains to be demonstrated. I am not saying that it is likely that they will fail, but the notion that they may not succeed should not be lightly brushed aside.