Muddyfudgerboth I (and Grape Juice) correctly cited the lack of roster stability as the problem that crippled our performance
alright, hold the phone buddy. I DID say that roster issues are a credible source of poor performance, but I only meant over a short period of time. (that's on me, i worded that differently than i intended)
Here's another anecdote:
s25, week 8, fygg went to Minnesota for a week and was unable to play for us during that time. We moved Ambroon to demo and picked up n3 to fill ambroon's spot. the first few days of that week of scrimming we were having difficulty adjusting to the lack of calls that fygg usually provided, as well as Phantom and Megaboy needing to get used to an entirely new combo scout. by the end of that week we had an extremely close match against Space Helicopter (Unskilled, mak, jaguar, slicerogue, kohly, legit), a team that, correct me if i'm wrong, stayed the same all season, and a team that we did pretty decent against in scrims throughout the season.
in this story, we bounced back and got our shit together in a span of an entire week of scrimming.
you're claiming that your roster in s26, that was different from the one in s25, did about the same as the one from s25 because it was different. unless every single week shit goes wrong then your story does not make sense, and judging by your roster history you had a roster change an average of .5 times a week, or, once every 2 weeks.
If everyone here hasn't convinced you yet, I hope this shitty analogy will.
Let's say you think that your looks are about an 8/10.
You anonymously poll 1000 girls and ask them to rate you /10.
90% of girls say that you range from a 6-7/10.
10% say 7+/10.
guess what buddy, you're a 6-7 out of ten.
If you want to take this awful analogy into TF2 let's do it
You think you're around a low-mid IM level
an overwhelming amount of people around or above a low IM level call you mid open.
guess what, you're not low IM.
If you don't learn this now, you never will. Please drop the b.s. and get real with yourself.