https://i.imgur.com/0rAdRcC.jpg

You can have a pretty happy medium for an open system by just using Elo to pick a set of 12 players from those added which prioritizes higher average Elo and lower Elo standard deviation. You probably want a separate medic queue along with this so that people in that queue are automatically picked. Then once you have 12 players you can do what you want- have a captain system or make it work like mixchamp used to where you create two teams with roughly equivalent Elo.

I wrote something quick in python in about 15 mins that does this: When there were 14 players queued and 10 needed to be picked with a reasonable Elo spread (e.g. if there were 2 meds added) it would pick the high Elo players ~80% of the time and the worse players ~30% of the time. Nobody has awful chances - but it'll usually generate a better pug than a random set of 12.

https://i.imgur.com/6Dh8eiQ.png

If there's one player who's way better than everyone else in the draft (e.g. they missed an A pug), a system like this can make them less likely to play so don't get a player who missed an A pug dominating a B pug. This is tunable of course, you could make high skill pugs more important than balanced ones if you wanted to. This example shows that with 12 players picked from 16 added (no medic queue).

https://i.imgur.com/X2dpF6Z.png

Here's another example with 24 players added and 10 being picked. You're going to make an A pug predominantly composed of higher Elo players.

https://i.imgur.com/3nrWWSd.png

If you combined this with a captain system, it works much more similarly to a doublemix (with 1st to 12 system), but with more balanced games. Not sure why more pug sites haven't tried it.

First thing I've read on this website to actually make me gag in revulsion.

the game never lies

Yeah, ok man, he was born in "the nineties". You really expect me to believe that decade actually happened?

Don't care. All of them lose their matchups against this guy:

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4zM2wD6cHpU/maxresdefault.jpg

https://clips.twitch.tv/AggressiveCoweringCaribouMrDestructoid there was this one too.

Played a pub the other day, the map vote happened and a guy kept spamming "JUNCTION SWEEP" and "First map to be played a Junctillion times!" in chat. It actually worked and junction got picked, at which point he typed "haha, enjoy losers!" and left the server.

Margaret Thatcher (real) : under socialism every team would be red

https://i.imgur.com/TjhCy0j.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/w5QvOZZ.gif

Come on man he just died have some respect

When watching a flank, I can be distracted by someone throwing a rock or other small object in the other direction, causing me to utter a phrase such as "What was that? I'm going to go and investigate." before throwing my arms up in exasperation and going "probably just the wind".

There's a plugin version of sdr you can use with hlae which allows you to skip the vdub step entirely. You'll have to record audio separately after the plugin's unloaded though.

Valve is effectively a publishing company which always have the scummiest business models on earth. They're effectively just a middleman so they don't have to really employ anyone, and the main thing they're providing for people is exposure so they almost always end up with monopolies (because people want to be on the biggest platform). I'm sure Valve's profit margins are enormous and any of the tech or games they do work on can afford to fail completely because they can just grab some more from the money printer.