lobbies are just a fundamentally different thing than pugs and having been since forever. if u wanna lobby thats fine but it cant be a replacement for even the biggest broadest pug groups/sites

absolutely right but likeable ppl definitely have an advantage in the grooming race

u think kids are getting groomed by unlikeable shitheads?

dont be a moron

to note is that not all of those players are banned for the same reason

i dont rly have any useful feedback here, but the reason i say is that ive gone thru the list like 3 separate times and each time few of the "active" servers are actually active, some of the rest are outside of my skill range (fair), and often one of the rest is the shithead pugs where 2 of ur teammates will throw and say slurs every game

yeah i read it, and i wrote my own post explaining why i disagree with some of it. i know his has more paragraphs and its yelling at rgl but that doesnt instantly make it completely correct

theres not really much in there that explains why its a critical issue that teams will VERY rarely rematch against eachother. he says its a 17 team division so it should be a clean round robin (agreed), but it's now a 14 team div so thats just not true/possible. i agree that some bubble teams having byes and some not is dumb, but i dont think the solution is giving more byes, since byes also skew result fairness

in any case i dont remember any example of a team getting into or getting denied playoffs because they played the same team twice. if there is. happy to be proved wrong here but everyone's just taking the claim that this has had real repercussions on some season's results at face value

if u wanna just -frag me and ignore or reply with a meme thats fine, its an open forum, but idk how actually replying to his post adds less than anything else in here has

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

the way byes are handled in winrate is a little dumb, and waiting until monday to get the schedule out is embarrassing, but i think a lot of the stuff ur talking abt doesnt rly matter

like who cares about whether theres a plugin or not. who cares when the top teams play eachother. why does it matter that youre getting rematched against teams with similar records? why do top teams deserve a bye week?

the only way a regular season can run remotely flawlessly is if its round robin. as long as we're starting with the assumption that every team will play 16 matches its always gonna have rough edges like this, and thats fine

ed is so handsome <3_<3

the pug spreadsheet has been useless basically since it was made
pugs happen way less and mostly happen inhouse or in servers with 1000 users
imo if u wanna play tf2 casually either try to ring for ppls scrims or get a pugscrim with ur boys

so funny every time bear or moof or whoever get their dslr photos processed and uploaded before the 18 different ppl post their imgur albums of 3 iphone selfies they took

and "whatchamacallit" is basically a direct translation. others could be "thingamajig" "thingy" "doodad" "doohickey" and probably regional variants. theres more type-specific terms like "gizmo" and "whats-his-name" too.

touching my head like professor x picturing the most annoying femboy in the world running mat_color_projection 3 pocketing his ebf in pubs

yep