I believe what Brett is trying to say is that server is balanced as it is right now. They are restricted to BALANCE the server. Furthermore, the strongest 2 races in the server, Human and Jack, are not restricted (and neither is nebula). The point of balance (or as close as is possible to get to it without hurting the variety) is to make any races counterable and killable. Both vaga (especially Lion) are really easy to counter in all but few maps and same goes for all the other races. AWP is restricted because it's the most powerful item in the game and it would make it way to imbalanced and not fun. Scout needs much more skill than awp, thus it's here and AWP is not. IBIS wcs server is by far the most balanced one from all the ones I've seen so far and barring few minor balance things that I'd do (fix rap's ultimate;take away banish from human's bash;etc).
And what's funny that if you're complaining about these imbalances now... Just wait for the shitstorm when eve comes out.
This clearly shows how little you've played... Laces are what makes vagas (and a lot of other races) not OP. We want WCS to be a strategic game where you have to at least think about what you're doing, how you're doing and how you're going to play versus just playing CoD and going berserk with no strategy. And why would restriction NOT be an option? Enlighten us? Please?