SpaceCadetowlWriting open power rankings is actually the worst and most thankless job on earth and anyone who has it in them to do it for more than 2 weeks in a row deserves much praise
Oddly enough I actually agree with owl about something.
Coming from someone who did power rankings a few times before, you should expect to weekly ruffle feathers or straight up piss people off no matter how nice you are in the write-ups.
The sad fact is that when most people think about "Power Rankings" it turns into a popularity contest where only the most noteworthy names or teams have any right to be included. My only advice on doing rankings is to have a specific criteria on how to rank teams. In my opinion, I based mostly everything I ranked on "Match Results" because in my mind they were the most important criteria from week to week.
Keep the writing going! There are a lot of people who appreciate writers but don''t respond in the threads. You usually only see the negative responses.
I think matches should be the standard but keep in mind this was literally the first week of open, and it's understandable that they pulled from logs. I know that in our case I was laggy for most of my scrims last week or we weren't playing and other teams might have issues too but that is, for the most part, not displayed in logs. Don't shit on writers for undervaluing teams or overvaluing teams it's their opinion and they have some logical reasoning behind it, they don't just spew out random crap(@milan and other salty players). I'm sure as the season goes on a lot of people giving open coverage will get a more accurate feeling of what teams will do best. Look at week one from last season https://thekillerexclusivetf2.wordpress.com/2016/01/27/esea-o-6s-s21-week-1-top-16-rankings/. There wasn't much to go off of and a lot of the teams didn't survive or did worse than expected.
TLDR Any attention is good attention and bitching about week one/two power rankings is stupid since a lot of teams haven't had teams grow or play.