as someone who played when this shit was last allowed, as well as in the cup recently that tried to test this, its fucking aids and should never return.

I've had similar questions for the past few seasons regarding RGL's financials because as I said in the previous post, they are not transparent about anything. If they are a not-for-profit company with the tf2 community's best interest in mind, why are they a for-profit business known as Recharge Gaming League LLC and not a nonprofit? I am not under any circumstance saying that Arcadia doesn't deserve to be paid but the primary difference is that as a nonprofit he would pay himself a salary and have to publicly release his financials and show the community where our money goes but as an LLC he doesn't so he can say that all our fees go to those things when they hardly do. Arcadia may just be working the best he can with the limited resources but these issues could be more justified/ alleviated with the right approach and transparency. One of the bonuses of having a game this small is that many of the people who aren't necessarily on rgl staff but are involved with tf2 comp have skills in other industries that they work in everyday that may not be directly related to gaming and could provide insight/ benefit to the community.

I am willing to believe that there are plenty of community members who make good money who are more than willing to commit money to rgl (like they do to plenty of other tf2 community events) if it was necessary and accounted for (myself included). Ive made posts about this before but Arcadia and any other RGL admins have just skirted the issue or refrained from a response.

One of the main reasons I decided that I shouldn't donate to rgl prior, is that they aren't very transparent about anything, and they suffer to make proper decisions and include the community when the expectation is that they are a league run by the community for the community.

I've brought up this example previously but an example would be Fireside casts. A few months ago, Siyo made public a basic income statement, showing where they generated revenue and what their expenses were. Fireside was profitable and even paid out some of their volunteer staff with the leftover income, which was also listed openly

If RGL needs to pay people for an ac team, then it would really help their case if they were just transparent about the costs to the community, and let the community either figure out a way to pay those costs, find a cheaper alternative, or deem it unnecessary rather than just say "we don't have the funds and that's why we keep having a shitshow every season"

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What I was clearly talking about is something that has been talked about by others in a way for cups to replace real seasons in the 6v6 format. Personally I'd rather play seasons than cups but there seems to be a big sentiment held by players who wish to lower time commitment. Won't ask how you ignored my notes about RGL's financials, or didn't deny that you are keeping seasons going for that reason.

I've heard that RGL won't do cups because cup signups have historically been poor over time and it's harder to charge league fees for cups, I've also heard that financially RGL is relying on league fees to fund a few plans and other costs of running the league. I saw that Fireside Casts created an open-source financials release for the year, which made it extremely transparent about costs and what was being done to raise funds. They even included payouts to their staff with the extra funds and were open in posting that they do want to pay their staff if they can for their time.

RGL says all funds are for the league and LANs, but how can I be sure of that? RGL isn't a nonprofit. it's an LLC. None of the financials are shared with the community. While I'm sure a lot of people won't fully understand all the costs that are required to run a league, they also won't understand if you never actually share that information. in my opinion, RGL could charge good amounts for individual cups and justify it by posting their financials publicly. the only reason people would be outraged is if the funds were being used poorly.

fireball cant spell.

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I really tried to refrain from making a tftv post about this, because I honestly believe that rgl should be given a chance to fix their stuff before I have to complain on a public forum but RGL's handling of matches is actually just abysmal.

They claim that a plugin is used to make matches, and that only 1 person has access to the scheduler but this is clearly not working. You guys said this stuff would be better last season and it's worse than it was.

-The matches are clearly skewed and not done by a plugin
-Top teams faced top teams from the first week (a plugin that seeds based on win record wouldn't be able to perfectly predict that, there would be some variation because of lack of prior info)
-Playoff teams this week are facing other playoff teams in playoffs deciders on sultry despite the fact we all have teams we haven't played yet.
-None of the top teams have gotten a bye week, almost all are middle division teams.
-Matches come out Monday or Sunday after scrims (I deliberately get a pugscrim every Sunday because I don't know what team that week I'll face, I don't want to scrim them Sunday to find out they are my Tuesday match)

If you want to skew matches make the top seeded teams play each other at the end of the season because that gives all of them time to work on their stuff. That also act as playoff deciders that are real and not rematches forced through the system that can potentially fuck over certain teams.

This season there were 17 teams at season start in div1, that means every team objectively should face every other team, and whoever performs the best consistently over the season should be seeded higher. While this doesn't affect this season cuz the top 4 teams have 4 wins above the rest, it's still dumb and has affected teams in past seasons. Retirement realm definitely gets owned this week having to play topes, but it would also fuck us over if they played a 6-6 team, some of the 6-6 teams have byes and are placed higher than 6-6 teams that don't have byes. This whole scenario is always just extra dumb and really needs to be fixed. If one team gets a bye every team should and every team deserves to play vs all other available teams to level the playing field.

This is because esea only had 3 divs. Whereas rgl has 6. This is because people have voted to want more divs with closer skill levels. even if you account newcomer and amateur being what ugc was in the past (a free place for lower-level players) The majority of IM represents what used to be low-mid ESEA open. if you moved all of them up to main, and move like 8 teams from the top of main into low advanced, Both Main and Advanced wouldn't have had any repeat matches.

Id like to add that I don't think moving all of them up would be the answer. Keeping the lower teams in IM in their own division and keeping them on the 1 match per week schedule to allow for a lower team count could be good. We could also just try to move up some amateur teams into IM. Amateur started with like 52 teams this season.

earl.