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Tery, you're next up, my man. I felt like we've played each other so much over the last two seasons that I was a little picky on your team's faults, but hopefully I did you guys justice.
Chilling in North Korea
Soldiers: Deep, Abstand
Demo: jodd
Medic: Tery_S9ne
Scouts: Brownstone, Joshin
Winners of the
radiumMr_Owllegitimately, it seems pretty silly to me. I'm sure I'll come off as whining or whatever, and that's fine, but it's frustrating to build a team over the course of a couple seasons, and finally have a chance to be in the top tier of open, and teams like the budteam, mesr's team, etc. come in and are immediately going to be right there. And in terms of their straight level of play, they likely belong at the top of open, but it really takes away a lot of the incentive to build a team from the group up.
I get that the rules are that teams have to have a season in open before moving up, but with the new move to main, why not move every open playoff team + these 3-4 'offclass' teams to IM to play with the current low/mid IM teams that were left behind from last season? Having scrimmed a pretty good number of the current open playoff teams, plus some of the current low-IM teams and some of the new offclass teams, they're all pretty close in terms of skill level*. That'd help flesh out the new IM and still allow Main to be populated with 8-12 teams who are close to equal. This upcoming season is a pretty unique opportunity to start all four divisions on the right path for continued success rather than the lopsided messes that we currently have in open especially.
*yes I know that scrims are not the most accurate representation of skill level, given that teams scrim to try out strats and not to win, but you can still get a pretty good sense of DM and coordination from them.
I don't know how you could force people to play in a division that they don't want to play in. Sometimes people want to try new things and have a little fun in Open - and I think we're going a little too far if we're looking to take that aspect of the game away from them.
An alternative solution to this problem would be if those "invite pugteams" were to seize existing IM rosters (and there are a few of them left). The issue with this is that they have to follow the ESEA hijack rule - and there are some good reasons as to why this is a bad idea for their purposes.
There will always be teams in any specific division that do not belong there. That's life, and I don't know if revising the rulebook to deal with 3-4 specific teams this season is a good idea.
The last three seasons of Open had the exact same problem - and we still saw some "original material" make it into IM as a full team.
Honestly, my opinion has changed some since I made this post. At the time there were wild rumors floating around teams that were going to be formed in open that would have been far better than the teams that have actually formed. Having seen most of these teams in action, they will be decent (read: playoff) open teams that will by no means run away with the division. There's no 'superteam' that I see that will take open by storm.
Budsquad writeup. I wrote half of this yesterday and half this morning, so please ignore any glaring logical inconsistencies from the first half to the second.
BUDSQUAD
Soldiers: Seanbud, powah
Demo: Lange
Medic: WhiskerBiscuit
Scouts: ????, Star
Ok, so let
good team, will be one of the best in the division if they're in IM next season
thanks for stealing hellbent from me DICKS
mesjk
What a normalcool alpha xD can't even tryhard at a video game
london_callingMr_OwlScarabSomeone tell killing we found a article writer
nah, london_calling/ques are both better at this than me, and they both have a better mind for the game for sure. I'd be happy to assist them in any way I can, but I don't know that I'm cut out for actual article writing.
at this point we're trying to figure out who is going to be writing for esea and if we're even going to continue with a separate set of rankings on tf.tv. i would say, owl, that doing these kinds of write ups are a little premature before the inevitable registration extension but are still a lot of fun.
we should talk soon!
of course they're way premature. A bunch of the teams in open don't even have six rostered, and at least some of these teams are going to die or change up their rosters monumentally before the season starts. But I'd compare it to college football fans doing their early power rankings just after the previous season ends. It's just to get people talking. Like I said in my first post, almost all of this is based on very little, and quite frankly, I expect most of it to be entirely wrong a week or two from now.
ScarabSomeone tell killing we found a article writer
nah, london_calling/ques are both better at this than me, and they both have a better mind for the game for sure. I'd be happy to assist them in any way I can, but I don't know that I'm cut out for actual article writing.
Game of Throws
Soldiers: smi|e, Omhaz
Demo: battery
Medic: Quindali
Scouts: Protocol, Someone
Game of Throws has had at least part of its core intact for a long time now, and while this is the first season in open for most of them, do not expect them to disappoint. They don
Pepperoni Beachballs
Soldiers: PurpleShirt, E4
Demo: XXL6
Medic: Dbos
Scouts: Derpus, ThePepe
A relatively unknown new open team, pepperoni beachballs seems to actually be a reforming of another S13 open team, the 5-11 Dolphin Commando Squad. Medic Dbos, scout ThePepe, and soldier E4 all played a number of matches for DCS, and after taking a season off, they
Big bongs long dongs:
Soldiers: mesr, schicken
Demo: omar
Medic: bombdigiti
Scouts: clorg, withadancenumber
As with many teams filled with former invite players who offclass in open, the question with big bongs is not one of gamesense or DM ability, but dedication. A number of these guys have performed well at the highest level of TF2, so there
I just wrote some words about some open teams. I'm kinda just going down the list and putting together a quick preview of each team along with a prediction. I'll post them here but please don't take what I say too seriously. Frankly, I've never even played against any of the three teams I wrote about, and besides watching some streams, creeping some sizzlingstats, and making wild conjectures, there's nothing of substance backing up any of my thoughts. If you want to correct me, berate me for being an idiot, or praise me wildly for my spot-on analysis, feel free. First preview to follow shortly.
'You actually spelled rediculous wrong'
Heh
StealthyAnyone want to make an analysis of owl's team? His team is right up there in the top 10 for open IMO.
no chance, pls ignore this poster
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