I was looking at all of the teams. oops.

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yo can some more teams sign up thx

rent a buds comin in full force get ready open

That Maus Trap team.

Also, rando can start the countdown after the extension.

legion of the horse also looking good if they main class

HOBOSTIX will lose both of it's preseason games in CEVO and I'll cry because I lost on my own maps

$___$

hippo's team will be good again, maybe they'll actually move on to IM this time

They're registered in main, what's the beef?

When sky posted that they were still in Open.

http://play.esea.net/teams/75348?tab=league&period%5Btype%5D=seasons&period%5Bseason_start%5D=174

So far my team is the only team paid up... hope they extend or people pay up

people don't pay till after first extension.

Top part of open is looking really, really competitive.

I'm looking forward to seeing London's writings for Open and IM. Though I'm actually most interested in the possible map change.

Can't wait for the season to start and see the competition. First place in open looking to have multiple contenders, I don't think there's any team that is far ahead of everybody else, unless I missed some teams.

Who do you have up there, mana? I haven't been in the loop as of late.

open is really fucking scary this season

bring back coalplant for sunshine until the map gets re-worked

or sunshine for badlands :)

honestly I'd rather play sunshine over coalplant

So I know I was the asshole that was plugging intermodal all last season, but truth be told, intermodal kinda sucks for 6v6.

However, my other map, cp_logjam is pretty darn good. ETF2L put it in their Nations Cup, and CEVO is giving it a shot as preseason 2. If any new map should be added to ESEA, I feel like it should be logjam.

http://teamfortress.tv/thread/14370/cp-logjam-5cp

Which teams are going to be top open?

yea can we get owl's charts up in here

I haven't gone stats crazy yet (only for a couple teams) but this is my list so far (not in any order) for TOP OPEN:
- maus trap - Most people on the team have had at least IM experience. And then there's mausy, probably the best Demo in open. Plat, put up a bounty for this team, please.
- Ducks Per Interface - My old team. Urban's "back" on pocket and they picked up fredwardo on demo.
- Off Top - Shocka is another demo who could contend for best in open, in my opinion. Rest of the team is pretty solid too.
- sparkle bunnies - All these guys have had IM experience (Main, even, when that was around), and chad "motherfucking" hero1 has had LAN experience. Beastly team.
- airs team without rainy - Solid team all around, and a combo with air and scrimshaw is going to be very good and also be aggressive.

I think these are the bubble teams that are close to the level of the teams I just noted:
- SPACELOBSTERS - I think it's a more casual team but they definitely have the players to be able to match up with top open.
- anime is just cartoons - My own team, but I think this is our appropriate spot.
- Graveguns Anerysm - Hippo is a really strong demo. And they have phelon from the old days.
- Hungry Hungry Ogres - Rigel.
- Gangsters with Waifus - Lots of high open experience on this team.
- Onslaught Gaming - Old school players with some newer blood, but plenty of experience (new and old) will help them. Shoutout to kace.

I could list the playoff bubble teams (Keywork eSports okay cloud, LARGE gamers, candle's team, Twitch Plays TF2, Powerthirst, etc.) but the top of open is looking insane.

KEYWORK ESPORTS

maybe if you weren't on medic, cloud

luca goers

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Yeah, this was only a really quick write up and I haven't gone through many stats yet, so I'm probably wrong/inconsistent about stuff.