Nobody is going to play Propaganda because nobody is going to want to scrim propaganda in a serious fashion. Hence it will get banned every week just like Cardinal was these past 2 seasons. Why waste your time trying to scrim in a serious fashion when you know the map will get auto-banned every week. ppl just play like jerkoffs and it doesn't help either team in those scrims.

I went over my stats over the last 2 season with the pick/ban system and thru 28 games:
Process 9
Metal 6
Gully 4
Sunshine/Snake 3
Granary 2
Viaduct 1
Badlands/Cardinal 0

I don't know about you but finding out I played 33% of my matches on Process was fucking terrible

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There should be a tweak to the Pick/Ban system, I am not sure how hard it would be to set in place but my idea is:

You cannot ban the same map 2 weeks in a row. Every week 3 new maps must be banned.

That way, at least some of the more unpopular maps remain possibilities for the system to randomly pick.

bump for this week

I love tery. Fantastic teammate, solid medic, underrates himself
Worst enemy is taking on too much responsibility for the team
Would thrive and surprise everyone if he ever had a solid main-calling scout

Haven't had much luck in the past with LFT threads but no harm in giving it another try.

Looking for tryouts as roamer. Feel strong enough for any level of IM
Would not be opposed to playing Open again for a fun team

Available for scrims - any days/times

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67ragXpWsAI

This seems oddly familiar to me

Loneliness

I didn't get much work done today, I was glued to the match from when it started. I don't like the Tie-Breakers at all but I will admit that I had a really fun time watching today.

Carlsen got stronger and stronger each game today. If the rapid tiebreaker was longer, it would have been a complete slaughter. Game 3 in particular was so nice I have re-watched it several times already.

Now that everything is over, I think 3 factors contributed to the 12 straight classical draws.
1-----A poor tournament format. (after 2 straight World Championships decided outside of classical matches, its obvious there needs to be some major changes to the format)
2-----Two 2800+ players and the first #1 vs #2 ranked players in modern WC history. (Engines play so much more of a role now even when compared to the WC two years ago in 2016. Classical memorization of lines is significantly more prevalent in today's chess and we all saw it on display.)
3-----Carlsen failing to find the winning combo in Game 1. (It wasn't a particularly difficult line to find for pros and was very quickly seen on several streams including the main one (Svidler/Grischuk) without using engines. If Carlsen wins Game 1, the whole series has a completely different feel and probably would have been really exciting without the need for tie-breakers.)

Another consideration is that Magnus was frustrated earlier in the series and I think it was because Caruana refused to take the initiative in some games when it was clearly in his court. I believe it made Magnus feel like Caruana was simply playing "safe chess" and didn't want to mix it up in a lot of situations.

That said, this Game 12 draw felt like Magnus giving that back to Caruana since it was the last game in the series. I have to agree with Phantom, if it was really his intention, Magnus played correctly and to his advantage as the superior Blitz player.

FYI, these are the Tie-Break Rules:

---Best-of-four rapid games (25 minutes for each player with an increment of 10 seconds after each move). The player with the best score after four rapid games is the winner; otherwise they proceed to blitz games.
---Up to five mini-matches of best-of-two blitz games (5 minutes plus 3 seconds increment after each move). The player with the best score in any two-game blitz match is the winner. If all five two-game matches are tied, an "Armageddon" game is played.
---One sudden death "Armageddon" game: White receives 5 minutes and Black receives 4 minutes. Both players receive an increment of 3 seconds starting from move 61. The player who wins the drawing of lots may choose the color. In case of a draw, the player with the black pieces is declared the winner.

I see you point of view, but these are the two final games of the series. The pressure is incredibly high and 1 lapse of judgement can be a blunder. 1 blunder at this stage of the series will likely be a complete loss. I would say moments like those are the main reason to be competitive in any game so that is where my hype talk comes from I suppose.

These Tie-Break scenarios really make me sad. Its like having a 6's match decided by 4's.

I know right. Its frustrating with 10 draws in a row. However, Game 10 was the best of the series so far IMO so I have hope for 11 and 12. Both had chances in Game 10 and it could have easily been a win for either one.

Games 1 and 2 were also really awesome and could have potentially been wins. I can't help but think the series would be so much more exciting if one of those first 2 matches resulted in a win.

If it does go to tie-breakers, I think Caruana will be just fine in the 25 min Rapid but if that goes to Blitz his chances decline significantly.

https://buddymeter.com/quiz.html?q=6WcAUoM

I feel so misunderstood

that paddie 6k, nice shit

pablo been farming upfrags from me all season long

Silk Penny