Hello! As part of my celebratory 24 hour stream, I will spend a portion of it to begin work on the ALL-TIME ALPHABET TEAM rosters. Right now I have planned this segment for Saturday around 12:30PM EST. Should be a fun time assuming I survive.

From the latest article.

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That's 144 votes. Or the equivalent of 24 teams.

There were 48 teams that played the New Map Cup. There are ~170 teams registered for Season 6.

The fact that RGL nearly put in a map that had votes from half of the people that actually played it, and 1/7th of their playerbase shows just how broken and fucked up some of their decision-making / plans are.

The rules were followed as stated, it's just that the punishment is too harsh. That's definitely something worth overturning the round or match for, but definitely not deserving of a ban, especially on first offense.

Ahh another season, another dosage of crater-sized holes and inconsistencies in RGL's class restriction policies. Check back in three months where we do it all over again.

As far as I know, this is the first time froyotech has placed 2nd since 2017.

ash is officially the froyo killer.

Today is a blessed day.

Qualifiers are starting next week on the 10th. Details I presume are only known to the captains of qualifying teams.

ESEA definitely did not figure this shit out beforehand, because ESEA never had a season where there was an extra amount of rosters wanting to play Invite. It's uncharted territory for any NATF2 league, I just fear for RGL's decision-making based on their history. Only time will tell how it all plays out.

Scream's point is that the tony team has players with Invite experience, comparable to or even moreso than the manacute team. In mustard's list, the latter is (in his eyes) worthy of not needing to play the qualifiers, while the former isn't. So if RGL decides to thin the pool early by having certain teams bypass the need for qualifiers, it leads to more case-by-case decisions or admin discretion, and we've seen how that has played out before in past decisions.

It'll be "interesting" to see how they go about this process for sure. I'm personally just amazed we have an overabundance of teams wanting to play Invite for two seasons in a row. It's been a loooooooooong time since that's happened, so keep up the good work everyone. And may the best teams in the qualifiers win.

Edit: Look back to last season for example. There's no telling how the original Burnsiders would've done in Invite, but they lost during qualifiers and thus their chance. And of course the whole pootis.org / Rebirth death and resurrection, and that team skipping qualifiers. This current offseason is basically that but on a grander scale with more teams and more time, of which these can be both positive and negative.

SpaceCadet is in his 40's but hasn't been active since RGL S3. For current (NA) players, anyone in their 30's is the likely candidate. Jaguar and KTB I believe both qualify. Jojo will be joining their ranks soon.

Invite having an extra map isn't a big deal, since they play every match with pick/ban and therefore giving each team three bans and then picking from the remaining three. Having an odd number of maps to choose from matters. You can see this issue in the other divs where during playoffs it always benefits to ban first.

I just can't fucking believe they're going to run a New Map Cup literal days before the first matches get played to decide what map will be in the rotation FOR THE SAME SEASON. Even when they ran the previous cup and Villa received the most support / interest, they waited a season before introducing that into the pool.

The clear solution was right in front of them: remove Villa, add Bagel. New Map Cup decides potential new maps for S7.

All right, let's do this one last time. Tonight at 8 EST is the season finale of All Around Advanced. The one, the only, the je'mond will be our guest as we wrap up the season. We'll talk the teams, the journey, the playoffs, among other things. And of course, we will unveil the winners of the prestigious Advanced Player's Choice Awards. Hope to see y'all soon.

Invite having an extra map makes sense because of the pick/ban system. And the idea that Invite teams get to break open some new maps (like Bagel over the last couple of seasons) is solid.

I really don't like how they removed two maps in order to get Bagel and a map that will be decided literally days before the season starts. From what I had heard, the plan was to cycle Villa out for Bagel and I think everyone wouldn't have batted an eye. But this is...something else entirely.

There will be one final episode of All Around Advanced coming to a stream near you...SOON. But before all that, every team leader will be receiving messages from me in the coming days because it's about time for the SEASON 5 ADVANCED PLAYER'S CHOICE AWARDS YESSIR. Of course the finale won't be complete without our division admin so KING je'mond will be joining me for it. Details will be announced later, but rest assured you won't wanna miss it.

I would unironically rather play Highlander Medic and drop three times to facestabs every map than have to go through the Quick Fix era again.

It's more important to me that I am playing together with good people / teammates. If they're extremely good at the game but not enjoyable to be around / TF2 with, then that's not my cup of tea. Never has, and I hope it never will for as long as I keep playing this silly game.

The last time froyotech lost a map in playoffs was August 2017, in case you were having a good Thursday afternoon and needed some souring.