Why are bo3 playoff matches scheduled for Tuesday and Thursday nights? If we're going to do that, I'd like to at least have them start at 10 and not 10:30...

Or allow you to delete your own logs.

when is the issue of fake logs uploaded by trolls going to be fixed? the site is being flooded right now

I'd like to be able to see my/other players' elo history, like a tab on your profile that shows a graph of where you started and how your elo has changed over time. Thanks!

Pretty sure it's broken; the stats look wrong even though it says week 3

I want to be able to wager my elo when I play a pug. There should be a button that says "x2" that would make me lose double the elo if I lose the pug, and gain double the elo if I win the pug

During the discussions about whether to use the b4nny config or not in matches, I always wanted to see data about round/match timers. Would it be possible to get numbers for things like:

Average round time on a specific map
Average round time on a specific point when ubers are even, i.e, how long is the average metalworks last stalemate vs a metalworks 2nd stalemate
% of rounds that end in a round reset on a specific map
Average match time per div/map

For example, one thing some people have said is that matches feel longer than they used to. I have a feeling people only say that because there's more continuous playtime than there used to be since there aren't halftimes anymore. But I'd like to see the data on things like this.

I'd also like to be able to sort players by accuracy if possible, so like scattergun accuracy for scouts.

Thanks

Death toll in Gaza just passed 28,000, with 67,000 wounded. Israeli officials told Palestinian civilians to seek shelter in Rafah, but then bombed Rafah, and are continuing to bomb it. Thought I would post an update.

Yeah, it was just one element to have the "winners" get some kind of prize. But the idea still stands even if there's no prize; splitting pugs into seasons based on an elo race could promote trying hard without sacrificing fun.

I like that these pugs have an elo system, but because everyone's elo has been manually set to begin with, elos might just float around the value they've been set at. Part of the fun of elo, I think, is starting from a baseline and gradually watching the number go up, and that's mostly where my idea was coming from.

Once the bugs are fixed and the site is ready for full release, I had an idea for how a way to make elo "matter," and make RGL pugs more unique as compared to pug groups in the past. It would go like this:

1. The site releases. Everyone who has played, say, main and above is allowed to play captained pugs.
2. Everyone's elo is reset to 1000 or something.
3. The race begins! The first 6 players to reach 2400 elo "win" Season 1 of RGL pugs, and each receive a small prize (maybe keys).
4. Once 6 players have won, everyone's elo is reset back to 1000, and the race to 2400 begins again in a few days.

I think this would provide a fun way to make elo interactive, and to make the grind of pugs have some overarching meaning.

Some ways RGL pugs could be improved:

1. Right now, any player can click a button to "sub out" any other player in the pug. By doing this, whoever is "subbed" is banned for 2 hours, whether or not he was actually there or not. So anyone can give anyone else a 2 hour ban by just clicking a button.

2. After the pug ends, the automatically-created discord channels close after about a minute or two, cutting people off mid-conversation. Part of the fun of playing pugs is talking with people after the pug ends, and this cuts it short. I recommend just having multiple permanent discord channels to move people into; that would solve this problem.

3. There should be a chat feature for each pug lobby.

4. Captains should be picked from the 2 highest-elo players. If that's already supposed to happen, it isn't working now.

These are some of the main problems with the site right now.

"Every country has the government it deserves."
--Joseph de Maistre

"Rulers who represent only a minority have to invent civilization in order not to perish.
The delegates of a majority, on the other hand, can be vulgar, rude, cruel, with impunity.
The greater the majority that supports him, the less cautious the ruler is, the less tolerant, the less respectful of human diversity.
When rulers deem themselves governors of all humanity, terror is near."
--Nicolás Gómez Dávila

Israel founded Hamas, Obama founded ISIS, NATO created Putin, etc.

Exactly on point. It feels like Israel is doing everything it possibly can to seem like a cartoon villain in this conflict. It's a kind of ethnic-historical revenge motivated by an endless fountain of rage. There's normally a saying that even bad kings don't want to rule over ashes, but I saw a post by an Israel supporter literally saying that Gaza should be bulldozed and turned into a parking lot. I'm also reminded of a few videos of people in NYC and elsewhere saying that Palestinians should be killed and don't deserve water and food.

Why do you think Jews support mass Middle-Eastern immigration to the US, but not to Israel? I think what most people would say is that the Middle East is for Middle Easterners.

Do you truly believe a policy of depleting the population of Palestine and other nations taking a stand against Israeli domination in the region is of no benefit to Israel-aligned politicians in the US and elsewhere? This isn't some Grand Theory; here's what the finance minister of Israel, Bezalel Smotrich, has said on this issue:

"What needs to be done in the Gaza Strip is to encourage emigration..."
“If there are 100,000 or 200,000 Arabs in Gaza and not two million Arabs, the entire discussion on the day after will be totally different..."
(Taken from the article "Israeli minister reiterates calls for Palestinians to leave Gaza" at Al Jazeera.)

If you support mass immigration from Palestine and the surrounding region, then you support Israel. Israel wants you to support the mass immigration of Arabs to the West. In order to be anti-Israel, I must be anti-immigration from the Middle East. It is in the strategic interest of US politicians to take in as many Arabs as possible, because this strengthens Israel, and these politicians are bought and sold (as you know) by the Israel lobby.

A similar thing is happening in Ukraine right now. The West's opening-up of borders for Ukrainian asylum-seekers has had the unintended consequence of decreasing Ukraine's birth rates even further (down 2.25% from 2022). Furthermore, it doesn't seem like a lot of the Ukrainian refugees will be returning after the war is over. This is basically a gigantic W for Russian geopolitical goals, just like Palestinians leaving is a gigantic W for Israel's geopolitical goals. I'm not pro-Ukraine, but the analysis is the same in both cases. Having a stable population that isn't leaving helps the people who oppose Israel, and it helps the people who are against mass immigration. It's a win-win. Unfortunately, neither party in the US takes this position. Why do you think that is? Could it be that the US is pro-Israel, or perhaps favors how immigrants tend to vote? Or maybe even both?