hellstarCan we talk about RGL and TF2 instead of insulting people for who they are?
It's very difficult for me to say I want new maps in the pool when there are no map cups, or ways for us to learn the maps when everyone can ban it or not pick it in pick/ban. No one wants to scrim these new maps because we won't play them, and we won't play them because we won't scrim them. It is just so much more efficient to scrim maps that we are likely to play. It felt like there wasn't that much diversity in invite last season, at least to me. I think there even was a team in advanced that played process every single game.
Perhaps there can be some system to add diversity to what we play? I am not entirely sure how that would work, but we could maybe vote for something like a rotating map ban.
I'm not sure how others feel about it though, and I don't think invite and advanced want to go through with playing 1 map per week again. It just feels like half of the maps in the pool exist just so people can eventually pick one of the pug maps.
i agree with you on every front and i think bo1 pick format just guarantees the blandest of maps, but you did play 8/9 maps last season with the one that was excluded being sunshine. this isn't actual analysis (likely the more common maps are actually more common) but the bo3 format did seem to help. switching to a bo2 pick format for round robin might also help since it's hard to create a balanced and fun bo1 pick format.