SmytherBumFreezeif more open teams signed up, there would be a higher proportion of open teams and more chance of playing vs other open teams.Given a choice between a round robin league, or swiss league, or a ladder, and a single or double elimination cup where all participants were open-level, I'd choose the league over the cup. The cup would have to have a prize and I would have to feel I had a chance at that prize to choose the cup. Elimination makes for better spectator competition (fewer matches that need covering, no pointless matches) and lets people who are only in it to win it go home when they lose their chance, but other than that, I can't imagine how elimination is better for the player than a league or ladder.
you dont have to choose between them, theres no reason not to play both? if open teams sign up for this you basically get free automated scrims with a v small chance of winning a prize or something, and if you do end up against a prem team you can literally just press Forfeit and find a scrim on irc or discord instead. its just another way to play some fun tf2 and people are complaining about it for no reason imo