I think I'm one of the few people who thought faceit prolander was fun. I also know for a fact that around ~6 players who were introduced to comp through faceit prolander decided to make an RGL team and also try sixes. I can't say that running the sixes queue instead during those weeks wouldn't have also enticed people to sign up for RGL, but I think people are making prolander out to be actively harmful to sixes... which.... proof?

The bones of it were good but due to the volume of players being so low, mid-skill games didn't exist and players level 6-7 would go from one game playing with pubbers and the next be playing with soapymeister and watterson, which was quite jarring. I'd like to see something return because the platform was pretty solid and required way less forethought and effort than running inhouses (which we do with those same players who got introduced to comp through faceit prolander).

idk about it killing 6s but prolander as RGL is running it rn is an embarrassment. I played the last season with a friend team of adv/inv HL players and we:
1.) got restrictions less than a week before the 1st match of the season that complicated our roster a lot
2.) got more restrictions literally hours before the 1st match of the season that complicated our roster even more
3.) were not allowed to move up a division (from adv to invite) after receiving either of these waves of restrictions
4.) were asked to vote after the 1st match of the season on whether we wanted to play a 5 week round robin or a 3 week swiss + 2 weeks of playoffs

I couldn't even tell you if the format itself is good or bad because almost every match we played was a complete mismatch. One of the five matches we played in the season felt like both we and the other team had a chance at winning, and that was on cp_fucking_steel against 6s players. And to top it off, the final match we played was against a team of comparable HL experience with remarkably fewer restrictions that coincidentally had a Prolander division admin on the team (not of the div we were playing, but a wild coincidence nonetheless).

I say all of this only to point out that if RGL or Sigafoo or whoever wants Prolander to be something that the competitive scene will see as anything other than a pointed insult, maybe RGL should take the format more seriously than the absolute joke that it is right now.

Faceit needs to revive pugchamp