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Me stealing your map sure affected you this deeply to keep talking about me every 2 posts. At least I'm not a fat fucking neckbeard who needs more than a decade to get to invite and lose out.

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People being aggravated and SHOCKED for being shittalked back is a story as old as ETF2L season 1 itself. I think the faint vs nR grandfinals shit talk was top tier and no cross-regional beef will top that.

Didn't your league ban me off a twitch clip and then you just typed "interesting" in the thread about it?

get the fuck out

Gonna derail a bit and say that top 4 invite has plot armor when it comes to RGL rulings and if you guys ever thought we don't receive special treatment, you are delusional. If some of you knew even 5% of the decision making behind scenes to stupid shit that happens even in the public eye you'd probably rope.

Basically if any of us fuck up, they will make some dumb fucking rule or say "well other admins handled this, but they don't play the game anymore" so that we are fine. I have heard 1000 times that "no, we literally banned top HL players!" but when you look historically wise at shit we got away it, it's insane. I mean I literally made the rule for picking maps a day and half before match time, so if I can do that, what else do you think can be made reality with those guys?

I still have respect for exa and makka for at least putting in the time to handle situations, but the league as whole, you'd have to be insane to trust any decision making. I still remember teams outright lying about match situations and their friend admin just giving them whatever they want, then having to go through 3 admins to get it solved. Actual aids, I miss ESEA where the match page was your one and only god and if you fuck up it's 100% on you and no admin can do shit.

This seems to be a huge misconception nowadays, but older players were good at the game because of their ability to adapt to new metas and styles of gameplay.

Yea 2009 b4nny would suck ass vs 2021 b4nny too but his ability to adapt and improve is what kept him at the top. All the old players would be the same way if they kept playing but there is this huge denial going on where everyone nowadays thinks they are 100x better than anyone before them. It's just how the game was played back then, none of it had to do with the actual skill level of players. And if that were true, I should have never been invite again after taking a 3 year break, let alone make playoffs.

Clockwork could pick this game up at a moment's notice and still be top 3 easily, same with lansky probably.

I think jay is the best pocket in invite by far right now because he improves faster than anyone in this division when needed. He literally created a new way to play soldier with an unlock all of us thought was dogshit, so the only comparison of old ages I think would be platinum, so I think Jay/Plat/Lansky are like the same top level pocket.

C+

We lost all of our prize money for ringing 2 players in playoffs for 1 match where we had a banned player and the other one's internet was out for the week.

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It's coming home??

zeekcaptain DMCA'd the VOD since he got shit on

Feno why are you going schizo now after months of radio silence

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Circlejerks killed pugs, now circlejerks pissed no pugs.

Circle of life.

The rule is in place because people would intentionally wait until last minute to pick the map or do map bans. That means if a team purposely chooses to fuck you over and not let you practice a map until 1 hour before your match, they can do that. It means teams can also choose to hold map bans hostage and ban maps according to your matches that week.

Ex: Your team chooses to play 3 matches this week, your 3rd match team will wait until Thursday at 10pm to do bans and then pick based on your results, so now you have to play a bad map (villa) with no practice/review (this happened last season).

Sorry but if you cannot pick a map/bans in the span of a week you are just lazy. If your boss gives you 5 days to do a 1 hour assignment do you just wait until Friday at 4pm to start it?

ESEA had a deadline on the site, I guess RGL can do a better job to let you know when you are close to that but sorry just check your map pages and make a mental note. I haven't missed a single map ban/pick for 4 seasons now, it cannot be that hard.