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Skeez is simply the best player....

The problem is the fact that the bans are completely blind from the other team, which makes it so both teams can decide to ban cardinal and granary, for example, and end up wasting bans and then ending up being RNG'd onto some other map neither team really wanted to play, like metalworks. If they changed it to a system like in playoffs where you just alternate banning until a map is selected I could get behind that, or at least made it so both team can't accidentally ban the same map.

Also, as berg said the randomness is stupid and should be removed imo. I also agree that having to play process/snake/gully all season is super boring and bland. I definitely preferred the old system where you have a full week to map review and perfect your play on each map vs two different teams then know what to expect when playoffs comes around. I for one liked the idea of striving to get as good as possible at every map, but with this system you're better off calling it quits for maps you're not good at like badlands, rather than working through it and figuring it out as a team. As much as it sucks to get the bad luck of having to play your rival team (that you need to beat to make playoffs for example) on a map that you aren't good at, I think it's fair to reward teams that are more well rounded and can win on any map, versus teams that just deliberately autobans 3 maps they're bad at/dont want to bother getting good at. If your team puts in the time and practice to get good at a few select maps that people don't play much or aren't good at,4 it's really stupid to have your opponents simply able to say nope not going to bother and just ban them off the bat.

I think we should be encouraging rather than discouraging teams to excel and get really good at their specialty maps cause it adds variety/depth and makes the game interesting (e.g., vel on snakewater), but allowing people to just ban them even in the regular season is a giant fuck you to teams like this. As much as I hated playing cardinal and think it's a terrible map, I do think it's good to reward teams that take the time and practice and get good at the fringe maps like that. Granted, having to play the regular season again with cardinal as one of the 8 weeks would be awful and I think it should be removed from the pool 100% if the system does end up getting reverted, the only way to justify adding maps like that is if you can always ban them.

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solid player didnt watch too much im this season but from what i saw he did well dunno about low invite necessarily but theres been plenty of im playoffs soldiers who went on to play low invite even tho they didnt win or whatever i dont rly see a problem if anything it says hes dedicated enough to actually want to go through the low invite grind rather than just playing im forever

Saam is unironically a really good caller and when he's practicing and trying he is a solid scout. Also everyone on this team is mad chill, I had a lot of fun playing for them in preseason and ringing throughout. I remember being pretty surprised by how good earthworker was doing, dude hit mad pipes and was a solid demo. Lolguy despite his meme name is actually really good at med and has tons of potential. Crazy surfs and arrows and shit, smart positioning for the most part, and dedicated to improve by watching demos and shit. Should be invite level in a few seasons for sure (watch out rocket u got some competition for up n coming med main xd)

I also wanna shout them out for sticking together, more teams need to do this and build synergy over the seasons (instead of trying to cut ur way to the top and then dying.....)

methinks tasheem is a noob......

Washed Up Like The Shorelines TM is a much more fitting title methinks....

Please do not slander the name of THE MACHINE.

The point you're missing is that the community came to an agreement when they decided to make pug systems that if someone offclasses for a significant portion of a pug it's simply not fun for anyone other than the person doing it. Yeah you can be trying hard and doing well playing sniper the whole game but does anyone want to add to a pug environment where that shit is allowed? That's just not something people want to deal with. Maybe if there was money on the line or literally anything other than playing pugs strictly for the sake of enjoying yourself playing some tf2, then I can see allowing whatever alternative offclassing meta shit because you are trying your very hardest to win. But given that there's nothing like that I see no reason to forego the majority's enjoyment of playing video games for some dipshit to have a blast playing an offclass for the whole game lol.

I do agree with you on the point about having a strict number for how long is permissable or not being a bit silly, because if for example the game is a super big stalemate and you end up holding your own last a lot and go engineer, or you play sniper to break the stalemate, you can probably get over 7.5 mins (1/4 of the 30 min pug) offclassing even if it's completely fair play. Doing it to mid or pushing out from one last to another though is where I think it's reasonable to draw the line.

Also the deaths record thing was literally in a pugscrim 2 years ago, and im pretty sure ive only ever done that sorta reverse 6 dom shit in inhouse pugs around that long ago as well.

some people like to play tf2 for fun, unlike you

this is true but it'd also be a lot better if there were more admins so people would go 'oh x player is admin i better not snipe for ten minutes against them and get banned' rather than the possibility of being reported if someone gets mad enough about it

edit: also honestly just crestrict insom for a week or something then maybe he'll have a reason to show up on time since he can actually get subbed lol

ok ur not wrong but i also literally haven't played that class like at all in 6 months or however long it was since it got nerfed into nonexistence