it already is

I have a pet peeve that I've noticed a lot from some of the casting this season. Particularly when the caster isn't a high level player (might be a coincidence) they feel the need to shit talk all the decisions the players make and it's pretty distasteful imo. It's easy to act like you know exactly what someone should have been doing when they make a mistake when you have access to all the information on the map and aren't feeling nervous or pressured. I have noticed it more with high open - low im level casters than invite casters. I often hear sandblast or meyy for example say something like "personally I think they should have taken an exchange instead of sacking because x" and the open casters go like "LOL what is (team or player) doing? This is so bad." Last night's open GF casting was particularly bad in this regard. I don't think this means you need more invite casters necessarily but casters that come on should be more respectful imo.

you also get the money like 3 months from now so dont hold your breath lol

As some of you might know in the later half of the pre season there's an invite player meeting where we discuss things relating to esea, what we wanna see, what we want to change, etc. One part of this is the whitelist, and if we want to unban or ban any items.

The problem with this at the moment is we don't do any testing. I distinctly remember from last meeting lots of arguments for bans / unbans were based on theory crafting rather than any recent experience with the weapons in a high level 6v6 setting. The cow mangler for example was unbanned because we unanimously thought that it was either a sidegrade to stock or a slight upgrade and that it wouldn't break the game but that unban ended up making a lot of people unhappy. We were also pretty close to unbanning the vaccinator, solemn vow, and if i recall correctly the crit a cola, all due to theory crafting. IMO this is pretty bad when this meeting decides shit for everybody in every division.

So to get to the point if you've made top 4 IM or have played invite and are an active player that is interested in testing I'd appreciate it if you could join this group (or if you have me added just hit me up) If there's enough interest we can do some pugs with all weapons allowed to see what could get unbanned, and what should stay banned.

Season 31 edit: Based on last season's (brief) testing the items with the highest potential to be unbanned are the solemn vow bonk soda popper steak sandvich so most of the testing will be for these

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from what i've heard half the people u listed are not playing for this team so you should check on that

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I knew i liked that KSG album but god damn

The point of inhouses is that you have to be invited generally...

I like the metalworks sky there should be another map that's night time

phone is one of my favorite teammates ever he's so good and so nice whoever their medic is is lucky

Assuming you meant amount of draws rather than percentage, in 1984 there was a match between Anatoly Karpov and Garry Kasparov which had 48 games and 40 draws that didn't actually finish cause the chess federation president at the time cancelled it cause shit was taking too long lol.

also woo go Magnus

scratch check ur pm

I think this decision actually makes a lot of sense from magnus, one mistake and he could lose the title when he could just conserve energy and win in the rapid / blitz section he's so much more likely to win at. That being said it's kind of disappointing to see happen but perhaps the potential outrage at this would be enough to inspire a rule change for the future

Bought this off someone today and as I expected based on reviews the colors are kinda funky, would anyone mind sharing their settings?

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midas was really impressive don't sleep on him he's totally in the realm of mid-high invite