I think everyone understood you the first time, the reality that we shouldn't be afraid is so clear that noone really would be.

I think to any competitive player, the spirit and idea of competitive is to get better, improve, win and to learn how to beat the other players competing. To see a format which attempts all the same things and falls much shorter in all of those regards is why I personally, (and perhaps others agree,) would bash HL.

I've known a lot of people who play HL and a lot who play 6s, and having discussions with them before and after a season or equal time period, it is almost always extremely clear that the highlander players just aren't getting better at anywhere near the same rate. You might say that the time spent scrimming is the reason (which is one major contributor in my mind,) however my UGC 6s friends who scrim as infrequently as UGC HL teams improve much faster than their HL counterparts.

To me it's like being on a train with half my friends, parallel to a train going at one third the speed, containing the rest of my friends, if I want to keep the ability to play with/talk to/chill with the other half, I would need to convince them to join the train I'm on, or lose them in the past.

They do take that sort of thing VERY seriously, I know because my mom worked with child services for a lot of her life, she was inspired to do this because my father left before I could remember.

If you have such concerns it would be much better to tell them, having bad childhood experiences like that can really fuck you up for the rest of your life.

So you're saying it will be more difficult, implying that only the "good" captains would pull it off?

I try to avoid acting immediately. I consider if its just my perception of the world causing the problem/offense or the other person has genuinely stepped out of line, in a way that I would consider excessive from his/her point of view.

If the former I ignore the situation and try to consider why I am so easily offended, and change that about myself. If the latter, I consider what would be appropriate as a response, with my highest priority being avoiding future damage, and my lowest being the feeling of revenge.

If I am truly out for revenge, I try to avoid any repercussions.

YOU were really mean to ME in mge, geknaiir but I didn't go posting it on your looking thread because MGE makes everyone mad, besides I hear sub is much better to play with than against, which is ideal in a teammate.

Marxist is maybe the smartest man I know. If you've ever wondered what the guy from "the most interesting man alive" commercials would be like, you can find out by talking to marxist.

No matter what the subject is he knows something really really helpful or cool.

http://playgroundology.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/calvin_and_hobbes_box.gif

This is how cute he is.

How can you not want this.

I use an alt so people don't avoid me.

I will play if there is still a slot.

I remember one match had to be rescheduled with a support ticket for one of the spare servers in an odd location, because of a client update. We opened a ticket got a list of 6 servers, told the other team we opened a ticket and there was only one available server (which happened to be our favorite of the 6.) Told them to post in the match comms to agree to it, which they did.

Ben is probably the chillest man you can play video games with.

He has always been an amazing person and a great friend.

This is the most confusing name of all time.

That isn't how I remember my first ESEA match.
http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=stats&d=match&id=2698698

Chill dudes

Who would just hate on a sport and not just play another sport.

Everytime I think I want to call someone out on how they played during something like this, I have to stop and check myself, if I could play at that level, if I understand the stress or problems that person might also be having, and if so I ask myself if I could prove it when asked.

This keeps me from talking shit out of my ass more often than I would maybe want in retrospect, and I highly recommend this process to all of the people giving crespi shit right now.

I have yet to see a player post shit about crespi that can consider themselves above his level and back it up.