Anecdotal, but a lot of highlander acquaintances I’ve spoken with have expressed to me that scheduling issues were one of main factors that played into the decision of which format to “main.” It’s difficult to rationalize staying up until/past midnight so often when obligations often require them to be up early in the morning.

I don’t intend to come off as condescending, but do you think there’s a correlation between the top players hailing from a region with more favorable time zones?
That isn’t to say either west coast or east coast has it better/worse, since both make many sacrifices to find time to play. But I don’t think it’s ridiculous to say that east coast players definitely have to make a very significant sacrifice that most don’t feel comfortable committing to. Gamers sacrificing their social life to game is definitely less consequential than gamers sacrificing their physical health to game.

The focused mind can pierce through stone. A samurai wouldn’t let a mere insect stop him from winning 6 lans and 30 invite seasons.

Why are you assuming just Americans are downfragging?

Stereotypes are earned

b4nny gets the final say
https://youtu.be/gYNUOkqzcVA

Head admin response for reference https://imgur.com/a/VdcWNiC

You can probably use gamma adjustments in a program like premiere to make your recordings look like how they do ingame

At least euros aren’t scared to ban retarded weapons on the grounds of them being retarded without needing to deliberate for several seasons just to rationalize their decision.

Gameplay was less refined back then as well. If you want to take into account the era they were playing in that’s fine, but the fact is that regardless of the competition, the level of skill and execution required to play was far lower than it is now, and that should be a deciding factor in of itself. Relative to the players around them, putting players like jay (who was provably one of the most talented players in invite (having also had several placement seasons (and wins) at the time the list was written) under players like dummy solely because of unc status and longevity is a bit preposterous.

Even as someone who wasn’t there at all for what would be considered the “golden era” of the game, keeping players out of the top list (or the list at all as is the case for soapy and Alex.exe) for being newcomers while shoehorning in uncs with a similar or worse/shorter resume made a lot of the list feel like filler, even if you could technically spin their careers to seem outstanding.

It’s called Lobby but there’s never a receptionist.

This might be the worst thing to happen to the froyotech roster ever.

If we locked eyes I would vaporize you instantly with my burger beam vision. Just the mere thought of the detonator is enough to melt you into a pool of goop.

Why can’t euros admit they just hate fun and stop making cope abt unlocks :///

When you can’t stop things from happening until they’ve already happened it feels unfair to the team the stuff is happening to.

I don’t think default interp fully explains why players reported having such a miserable experience against you… otherwise they’d be hackusating almost every single heavy in casual.