heck

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Damn, back in open. I'll never leave this division.

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So invite is still happening since open and IM are merged?

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Need one team...ehh probably easier to kill division

So now its possible for murkscribe's team to have a match against Sparkle gang? thanks.

does this change when the season starts?

Shouldn't this thread be deleted? IM is only a figment of my imagination now

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The Battle of IM. I'll contact the school history books publishers to make sure kids around the world know of this tragic event...

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now i can call everyone open

go back to open with mustard slemnish

delet this thread
8k are the final im champions

And every IM player can no longer say "damn open players"

I still don't understand why.

Even if IM had 13-14 teams, the league fees would still add to more money for ESEA.

Pushing all those 13-14 teams to Open will mean the same players still pay to play in open. (unless they quit because of this change)

Lower league fees in Open means less money for ESEA. This can't be strictly about money cause the numbers don't add-up.

mb esea just wants to kill tf2 and be done with it

Especially since we had 15 teams with 5+ paid...we only needed 1...

Honestly, this isn't as bad as it appears to be. Obviously its a downer because its a sign of the deflation we are going through currently, but realistically the IM division was being diluted in skill level and the gap between even mid to high IM was huge, basically there is no difference between mid open and low IM anymore and that's not really a good thing.

With the merged division, the best teams will still come out on top and the lower end teams will still end up playing each other more due to the schedule balancing and the competition will be more balanced overall when it comes to matches, at least that's how I see it going. Throw in the occasional underdog match up in there and there is a huge margin for improvement on lower end teams, and better competition for higher end teams.

On top of that, it will be easier to actually gauge teams real skill level overall I think so that could make progression easier in terms of getting accurate and balanced practice.

Chin up boys, it could be worse.

It is interesting though, because when IM was originally introduced in season 7 there were only 13 teams for that season. So we still had higher numbers then back then, but granted that was literally 7 years ago now.

I guess the new motivation for winning open is that you will move straight to Invite in the next season!

will we get another chance to have im next season or is it just a one and done forever kind of deal

I feel like unless we get a significant increase in player numbers, IM wont be coming back.

There were plenty of teams in open that were capable of playing in IM that just didn't. And If we get something like newbie mixes going again open numbers would be fine

open is looking fat this season

Based on an earlier post in the open thread, they had like 27 teams with 5+ paid so they were fine with numbers. Now we have like 40

I know people are wondering why im got cancelled when we arguably had enough teams. i'd just like to point out that mustard won his first im playoff match last season and now the whole div disintegrated. coincidence?

tldr mustard killed im

what have I done.