rocket league babyyyyy

lol. from the outside the cup just looked like a fun little thing that beater and etf2l had put together. literally no reason to believe the cup was immediately relevant outside of providing map feedback, which is only fun for a select group of people. ive got nothing against the people who did play it, but there's also no reason to hold a grudge against the people who didn't.

POG

but yeah sandblast + laz + slem = im???

for one thing, asshole, i absolutely provide feedback when its asked of me, i just didnt want to play a euro cup. i actively participated in na new map pugs back when they happened and made plenty of posts on map threads about what i thought worked and what didnt. you havent even played competitive since fucking 2016.

its not fair to begrudge people for preferring to spend their time playing maps they know are gonna be in next season instead of spending time on a cup playing maps they have no reason to believe they will ever play in any official capacity.

edit, what im trying to say is that if etf2l had indicated at all that they were considering trying out these new maps, people would have cared a lot more

yes. when nobody thought it really mattered, no one cared. why is that a problem

hello this thread is now "what is the worst thread on tftv"

sunshine > granary_pro, metalworks, prolands

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Man, it's honestly crazy how hard it can be to get people to sign up for this. I don't know whether it's taking place on a bad day, or if the format itself takes too long, or if no one wants to have to play Froyo, or what, but it's crazy hard to get people to play these. I've fielded teams for every one of the monthlies so far, and I have to replace half the team every time. This month I asked literally 30 people if they could play and was only able to get 1. Real sad stuff.

this will be bo4r's season, i can feel it...

banny

Dang, so not only are Slemnish, Corsa, Ma3la and Bdonski quitting, but is that Svift NA dead too?

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I think you're vastly underestimating how much a prizepool would motivate players to move, especially if you actually get enough players to split that prize across multiple divisions. The move to CEVO from ESEA (a company which had just installed malware on all of its customers' machines) failed in large part because ESEA was still offering a larger prizepool, not because of any good reputation or medals.

Again, you are competing with the other leagues regardless of your default days. People cannot play every single day, so even when your match days are different, people have to choose between you. As it is, you're simply giving UGC one more advantage over your league by asking your players to give up the two days of the week they're least likely to give. I don't think you realize how unfair it is to ask people to play league games on those days. It makes it very difficult to ask players to try your league, even newbies. New players will choose the league with a reasonable schedule every single time. If I'm talking to a new player, and tell him about two free leagues, but that only one of them has a prizepool, he'll pick the prizepool even if he doesn't think he'll get a chance to take any home this season. But the 2nd question is inevitably "when do they play?"

If you're biding time while actually working on improvements to the league (a better website, or automated scheduling or something) then that could be worth waiting for. But if you're waiting for some threshold of players, or some reputation boost, it's just not going to happen.

You're competing with those two larger leagues regardless of your default days. Very few (if any?) teams play all 7 days of the week. Moving TFCL to compete with UGC default days, at least, gives teams a choice between two free leagues, one of which has a prizepool. As it is, teams aren't just choosing to give up playing ESEA or UGC when they sign up for TFCL, they're also choosing to give up their Friday and Saturday evenings.

Our team really wanted to play TFCL this season, especially with ESEA changing the map selection and grinding one map every week not being as important, but the default days are incredibly inconvenient. Our schedule (and I think the schedule of most teams, though I don't have any data) is literally Sunday-Thursday, taking Friday and Saturday off. I know the match days are open to negotiation, but the risk of having a team try to force a fri/sat match is just too high to feel comfortable signing up over UGC and/or ESEA.