clyph0rdIs it common for teams to sandbag in IRC?
I always ask for low open scrims.
In the past three weeks, we've scrimmed two IM teams, one high open team running two huntsman snipers, and an invite team (all of whom said they were low open to scrim us). The only one I recognized before we started was the invite team, who, when asked why the fuck they were trying to scrim a low open team, said something along the lines of "we aren't going to try hard."
I don't know about anyone else, but I personally think this is kinda ridiculous :/
Our team only has time for 2 or 3 scrims a night, and it's frustrating when people waste our time with 5-0 rolls. Not sure if the other team is looking to screw around, or just get a confidence boost or something, but we are all pretty tired of it (especially since we already get 5-0'd against any mid open teams).
At this point I should probably go memorize the names of everyone in invite, IM, and high open.
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I've been trying to find other low open teams to schedule scrims with, with very little success. I am quite sure I am shitty at scheduling, but it seems weird that of the approx. five other teams I try to scrim regularly, only one is ever available more than like one night a week.
If you consider yourself a very low open team, feel free to add me.
Confirmation that we aren't secretly an invite team looking to waste your time.
I remember when I first started playing. Played a lot of teams which were way over our experience (but that is how you learn as a team) or were trying to troll.
One thing you can do is tell them you're a newer team and would like a link to their team page. And like steve said, add team leaders. Then you can just message people when looking for scrims too if IRC doesn't give anything helpful.