With 1.6 Billion Muslims in the world, if even 1% of them are extremists then we need to worry about 16 million of these idiots causing us harm. Lots of estimates are well above 1% so don't act like it was just 8 guys in Paris out for a stroll with guns and bombs completely not representative of a HUGE amount of people who agree with killing us.

You keep worrying about "statistics" and and whatever college professors paper you happen to read and agree with on a Friday night. While you and the medic do that, the next terror plot is being sketched out in some random house right now by a group of people who should not be in either country to begin with.

Is it enjoyable to talk about 2 completely unrelated situations and try and make them seem the same?

Most mass shootings have been mental health issues gone bad. A terrorist attack is a group of people intent on harming another group of people. Both can be stopped and prevented but they both required a different approach to solve. That is why they are different and separate issues.

Negative frag me all you want, the truth is that you might be completely right about "Azeer, Kamal, Abdul and Mohammed" not being directly part of what happened last night or with terror acts of the past but I'll be damned if I trust them in any way shape or form. The entire region of the world has shown they hate us and want to do us harm by sneaking into our countries and hitting us from the inside.

A time will come, probably after many more attacks, when the countries of the west realize you can't be civilized with cultures/religions that have not evolved to that level. At one time ,Christianity was just as violent as Islam and perhaps even more brutal but we evolved in the west and so did our belief system. The same has simply not happened in the middle east and both cultures will continue to clash.

#5 Elite Pwnage Squad
Vs.
#12 rip john wayne kayc

EPS was leading the Open Division rankings for mostly the entire season until the last 2 weeks. Tough losses to the top teams in the division pushed them down to the 5th seed and in an unfavorable position in the bracket. I believe EPS has the toughest road of all playoff teams as they try to reach the finals. Even predicting this first round match is dealing with the unknown because EPS has had some strange match results that indicate good and bad tendencies. On the good side is the ability to hold and win tight matches. Several wins have been by just 1 round and that proves their resolve under pressure. On the bad side is the lack of consistency against teams they should defeat more convincingly. Having an “off-night” in the playoffs during a BO3 will result in watching from the sidelines.

john wayne are more of a mystery to me now than they were when the season began. They finished with 11 wins total but 6 were FFW’s. Their best game of the season, and likely the best game played in all of Open so far, was a 4-3 loss to none other than EPS. (If you want to Download and watch a good process match, look no further)

I have to predict for EPS here because they should be the stronger team, but don’t be surprised if this match goes to a third map.

5-1 – Badlands – Elite Pwnage Squad
5-3 – Granary – Elite Pwnage Squad

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#6 BLANC Esports
Vs.
#11 god is real dude

Doing a write-up on my own team (BLANC Esports) is a little strange but I like to be honest and not bullshit around. I have greatly enjoyed this season with my teammates. Our overall experience level as a team is pretty low but we have learned to play together and improve. I feel that we have not yet played up to potential against the top of the division. We have always taken at least 1 round in matches and some scores to not reflect how close it was in reality but falling short is falling short. I can say this with certainty, if we play to potential, we can defeat any team in the division and playoffs are the proving ground.

god is real dude is a team I honestly don’t know much about aside from looking at the match results. I do not know who the starting 6 players will be but looking at the roster, I do know yeremy and saint to be very solid players that can carry a team. Wins against Pwr Rangers and John Wayne highlight the season to this point but against the top of the division they have struggled.

GL in the match.

5-2 – Badlands – BLANC Esports
5-2 – Granary – BLANC Esports

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#7 Blue Elephant
Vs.
#10 smug drugglers

Blue Elephant started the season with an impressive 9-0 record. 4 of those wins were against playoff level opponents including their best win of the season over Mutual Consent 5-4. Clearly this team is good enough to hang with the top of the division but may have issues in close matches. 4-3 loss to EPS and a 5-4 loss to BLANC were missed chances to really climb the ladder. Playoff matches tend to show a team’s true colors because BO3’s can be grueling affairs that come down to the final captures.

Smug drugglers started the season 1-4 and just making playoffs after that poor start is impressive in itself. Since then they have mostly destroyed their opponents and got key wins over Spider2 Y Banana and John Wayne. This team has been improving all season and has been scrimming hard for playoffs.

I think this is the key first round matchup to watch. Either team can win, it just depends on who shows up on match night.

5-4 – Badlands – smug drugglers
5-2 – Granary – Blue Elephant
4-1 – Metalworks – Blue Elephant

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#8 2 in Flank 4 in Stank
Vs.
#9 Pwr Rangers

2F4S had one of the easiest schedules for the first half of the season and ran off 8 wins. The second half of the season is where they proved their worth despite going 3-5 against the harder teams. Wins over Blue Elephant and an unexplained 5-0 roll of powerhouse Mutual Consent highlight the season thus far. Looking at the losses shows some very competitive matches against teams at the top of the division.

Pwr Rangers is a strong team that has the potential to surprise in this match. They proved during the season that they can be competitive against other playoff teams but finished the season with 3 FFW’s. That alone means they have only played 1 match in a month and there could be serious rust unless they have been scrimming really hard.

I believe this match will go down to the third map and has the potential to be a nail-biter.

5-1 – Badlands – 2F4S
5-4 – Granary – Pwr Rangers
4-3 – Metalworks – 2F4S

Now that the playoff seeds have been finalized, I figured to make a little write-up with predictions about the Open bracket. In my opinion, this Open Post-Season is one of the most evenly balanced between the top of the division. Even the “middle of the pack” teams have been strong and many have shown they can hang with the top teams. I see several matches in this first round that have the potential to go 3 maps and be major upset wins.

The second round of playoffs should have some insane match-ups and I will try and update this post after the first round is complete.

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#1 Ed Head
Vs.
#16 open winners

Ed Head have easily become the front runners to win Open this season. Since Gullwash week, they have utterly destroyed other High Open teams they have faced giving up only 1 round in the process. I have been told they have been playing their “mains” in recent matches so that only makes them scarier to face as they could likely contend with most IM teams.

Open winners qualified for playoffs by losing their final match 4-3. ESEA rule changes apparently qualified them based off Rounds Won and even that was by the smallest of margins.

I can’t see anything but a complete roll for Ed Head, even if they off-class.

5-0 – Badlands – Ed Head
5-0 – Granary – Ed Head

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#2 Weiner Bros
Vs.
#15 Koala Washing Machines

Weiner Bros started the season as mostly everyone’s pick to win the division. They have the experience and talent to beat any team in Open and for the first half of the season they were dominant. Recently they seem to be slipping a little bit as the matches get more difficult but I expect them to refocus for the playoff push and the first match should not be much of a problem.

Koala Washing Machines made playoffs with 10 wins. 50% of those were FFW’s and there is not really a single match worth talking about this season.

I believe Koala Washing Machines stand a good chance of winning against Weiner Bros if they get another FFW

5-0 – Badlands – Weiner Bros
5-0 – Granary – Weiner Bros

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#3 Puck Fat
Vs.
#14 WaddleSquad

Puck Fat is a really good team, I had several scrims against them and they have been quite solid. That said there is some concern looking at the match performances. Puck Fat has mostly avoided playing the top teams in the division except for 2 losses against Ed Head and Weiner Bros early in the season. These early losses forced ESEA scheduling to give Puck Fat an easier schedule as the season progressed. This match against WaddleSquad could be more interesting than the seeding numbers indicate.

WaddleSquad likely had the toughest schedule for the beginning 8 matches of the season and finished 4-4. The middle/late matches of the season allowed them to stomp the other mid-open competition and made a good playoff push at the end.

I know WaddleSquad have been scrimming hard these past weeks and could make quite a good BO3 against Puck Fat but they really need to close the DM difference. Fast

5-1 – Badlands – Puck Fat
5-3 – Granary – Puck Fat

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#4 Mutual Consent
Vs.
#13 Spider2 Y Banana

Mutual Consent has had an incredibly strong season. They are the only team who has defeated all the top 5 teams they have faced including 2 major wins on Viaduct in the final week where ScrewB was simply insane in both matches. Of more interest to me are both losses this season. A 5-4 loss to Blue Elephant is plausible enough but a 5-0 loss to 2 in Flank 4 in Stank is way more puzzling. No offense to 2F4S but there has to be some story attached to this loss that explains how Mutual Consent got rolled on a map like Badlands?

Spider2 Y Banana has been destroying mid-open teams since starting the season with a 2-4 record. Coming into the final week they needed at least 1 win to secure a playoff spot against teams that I frankly thought they were going to lose to. They proved me wrong twice with 2 solid victories and knocked yack me off out of the playoffs in the process. There is no doubt this team has gotten much stronger as the season has progressed because of a few key pickups from other dead teams but recent team drama is likely going to stop all progression for the time being.

Unfortunately for S2YB, I don’t think this first round matchup is going to end well.

5-1 – Badlands – Mutual Consent
5-0 – Granary – Mutual Consent

The response needs to be how we responded to 9/11. Hopefully the French can stop being pussies and start to fight.

Radical Islam does not respect treaties, borders, or anything civilized. They only respect force and force is the ONLY way to deal with these people.

The time has long past to pull the gloves off our collective military power and allow them to do the job that needs to be done.

So which playoff teams are dead at this point?

no offense but how do you know what the seed actually are if ESEA has not let us or anyone know how they are going to deal with the tie-breaker issues?

I have absolutely no problem with people asking for donations, even begging for free money. Who are you or anyone else to tell me how to spend my money?

My personal feelings for TF2 related donations we have seen is that I have no problem at all giving a donation to a team/individual who needs the money to get to LAN as travel expenses. The last 3 iSeries have been like watching your favorite TV program or newly released movie. I spend money to watch the things I enjoy watching, everyone does.

I do have a major problem with ppl asking for donations to upgrade their computer. Get the fuck out of here with that load of bullshit. Don't tell me you need it to play a game like TF2 cause that is just more shit. People like that will never see a cent from me.

As I said earlier, DJT is 17th because the ESEA webpage sorts the teams based off Records and Rounds Won. However, the rules clearly state a different method of sorting when it comes to playoffs. I think if you actually read anything in the OP you would have understood that as I did try and make it as clear as possible.

That is how the division table sorts teams, but according to the rules, you just lost your head-to-head with NAB, so you should be out. The admins needs to decide who makes the playoffs at this point.

If the admins go by Rounds Won, then Disney Jam Thursday makes playoffs if NAB wins tonight without dropping 3 rounds. Open winners still decide their own fate, if they win they make it but if they lose 4-3, they will still make it off Rounds Won.

There is an extremely high chance that I would but an even higher chance I would be looking for the mute button afterwards.

I am sure an ESEA Admin or some smart person out there can explain. As I review the statistics, I do not know why Head-to-Head is above Rounds Won in the seeding rules. I believe this tie-break formula causes more problems than solutions and is a broken way to determine seeding for TF2.

This may work in CS because of the large amount of teams in each division but with TF2’s smaller divisions a different tie-break order is necessary. As some have mentioned, the current rules regarding tie-breakers and seeding are:

Overall record then by
Head to head record then by
Highest amount of regulation rounds won
Single map playoff if all other tie breaker scenarios are indecisive

Having Head-to-Head above Rounds Won can cause a gridlock between multiple teams. Team’s A, B, C and D can have tied records but qualify and disqualify each other based off head-to-head results. Logic would say to look at Rounds Won at that point but how can you use the secondary tie-breaker unless you satisfy the primary tie-breaker first? The current situation for the 16th open playoff seed is a prime example of this rule breakdown.

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The last remaining match result to determine the Open Division 16th seed is Not Around Bears vs open winners. Let me preface this by saying if open winners defeat NAB, they will automatically qualify for playoffs and all of this is academic. However, if NAB wins the match, the situation is more puzzling to me as 4 teams will be tied with a 9-7 record. The tie-breakers do not lineup perfectly for any team to have a clear advantage over the other 3 teams so who would get the spot?

Should NAB win, here is what I see:

Not Around Bears – 9-7 (49)
Do qualify – H2H win over open winners
Do qualify – Missing H2H with yack me off but have more Rounds Won 49 to 41
Do not qualify – missing H2H with Disney Jam, thus Rounds Won for Disney Jam (51) disqualify NAB (49)

open winners – 9-7 (52)
Do qualify – H2H win over Disney Jam
Do qualify – Missing H2H with yack me off but have more Rounds Won 52+ to 41
Do not qualify – H2H loss to NAB

Disney Jam Thursday – 9-7 (51)
Do not qualify – H2H loss to yack me off
Do not qualify – H2H loss to open winners
Do qualify – Rounds Won (51) over NAB (49) because of missing H2H match

yack me off – 9-7 (41)
Do qualify -- H2H win over Disney Jam
Do not qualify – Missing H2H with NAB, thus Rounds Won for NAB (49) disqualify yack me off (41)
Do not qualify – Missing H2H with open winners, thus Rounds Won for open winners (52) disqualify yack me off (41)

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Should the above 4 teams finish the season 9-7, you can see the reason why each of those 4 teams can defeat each other in every qualifying scenario. There is no single team that, according to the rules, has a claim to the final spot. In my mind, the only way for a team to advance is being able to satisfy each tie-breaker with every other team. Even 1 exception is not good enough according to the rules.

Unless I am missing a major piece of the puzzle, I do not understand how the current rule-set can justify any of those teams getting the 16th seed should NAB defeat open winners. This doesn't just apply to who get this single spot but I also believe it can effect the seeding for the brackets in every division.

Think I got a few right, Mutual Consent screwed a lot of shit up but that's ok. :) Nice win