What I think is, to keep cube craft alive, we need more 1.8 combat games, the 1.8 combat community is much larger than 1.9 (don't quote me on that, but I think its true). So why not make more 1.8 combat games on 1.8.9, people want PVP. Not slow paced 1.9 pvp. You see on hypixel, most of their games are 1.8 fast paced pvp games. We can keep the 1.9 games and all but to draw in more players, we need 1.8 combat games. Lets be honest here, as
@logicalpencils said, cube craft is the only 1.9 combat server with over 50 players. A lot of people want more 1.8 games.