im not gonna claim that im speaking any more with my head than my heart, but i will just point out a couple things.

This literally already happens every season. Every admin adds the team leaders from their divs/creates a steam group to streamline coordination. How do you think demos are collected? How do you think playoffs are organized? In fact, the only things admins don't do as you've listed here is communicate with AC in any way.

I thought i already addressed this position but i think it was in one of the rewrites i deleted. it's always been the easy stance by RGL to blame the players for not doing "the bare minimum," but that doesn't really fix any problems, does it? You can criticize the culture of the community all you want, but that doesn't defeat my criticisms of RGL policies, and I maintain that its RGL's position to accommodate the community rather than lambast it.

I've been an admin and I've applied to AC before, too.

Anyway, i could've just not thrown that edit in and collected my upfrags, but honestly i'm just frustrated that it seems increasingly that nothing is going to change in this league in spite of excessive public backlash. i'd like to encourage more people offering up suggestions to improve the system, even if they aren't super well thought out. At least that way we can get more insight into what the community would like to see more of going forward. And it gives you more people to dunk on, too!

I had to rewrite this like 3 times because HOW ON EARTH COULD YOU HAVE A COMMUNITY AC TEAM WHOSE NEVER HEARD OF FENOMENO???

Please RGL, if You are reading this, just accept some people onto the AC team who can act as a messenger between the AC team and the community. Like just a couple really nice fellas that everyone likes, even if they couldn't spot a cheater for shit. cuz at least they will know who fenomeno is.

edit: sorry i had to collect my thoughts but let me justify the middleman thing. the AC ticket system is one of those ideas that seems great on paper but just doesn't mesh with the psychology of players. someone cheats against me in a game? i grab their demo and watch it with some friends. we laugh about it, say "i cant believe this guy!", and move on. by the time the watch party is over, the bad blood has been dealt with. i no longer care enough to open up the rgl ticket system and fill out a form, especially because i have no confidence anything will come of up given prior experiences. does it make me a bad person? maybe. but i know im not alone in this behaviour.

my point is that cheater demos get thrown around in steam DMs like trading cards, even if a lot of them never make it to the ticket system. so just have someone who has their steam DMs open that people know and can trust. that person can then pass those demos onto the AC team, and could even keep track of tips. i know it sounds completely redundant, but i think you would be surprised how much information such a person could pick up between playing pugs, scrims, and matches. and i have become increasingly convinced that nobody on AC has touched 6s maybe ever in their lives.

wait, so we want loch banned because its hard to react to and can do a lot of damage over really long distances, and we want mg banned because it can 1-shot most classes and offers little counterplay?

i swear i've seen this before...

to be brief, i don't think this is the right line of thinking. plenty of people apply to RGL AC, its just that very few are ever accepted to due RGLs rightfully rigorous interview process. Offering awful pay is more likely to attract kids than actual professionals. id rather they rethink their AC structure so that Good Samaritan™ eye testers could better help more important/blatant cheating cases reach a higher priority in their queue without needing to resort TFTV threads or without needing to commit dozens of hours to studying the blade of AC to make it onto the team themselves.

im just gonna go out on a limb and guess that paying 1 guy $50 a month is not gonna be as effective as, lets say, adding even 1 other person to the AC team. and im also gonna double down on the theory that high profile cases should get priority over newcomer HL demos.

im really with spacecadet here that you cannot look at this situation as anything but mismanagement of the league. sure, i imagine the 1 guy on AC is trying his best with what he's been given, but why hasn't he been given more? like an actual staff?

as an aside, if anyone has more specific information about exactly where the prize pool money is going, ive been really curious since this post was made:

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i just thought it'd be really cool if AC or RGL provided servers were somehow hidden in here idk

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I tried to look it up but can't find it, if any of you have it I would appreciate it

if u think sultry has purgatory last u just wait

ggs everyone

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when we picked up raph last season, he wanted to flank but we basically forced him on combo and said "learn to maincall," and he's pretty much the only flank scout I've ever played that succeeded at that kind of transition within the span of one season.

puts in more work than most (and was not toxic at all)

hi fellas, me and the boys are gonna be sneaking into invite playoffs this season but WE NEED YOUR HELP TO DO IT!

Scout: ?
Scout: golden (unless he baits me)
Pocket: Me :)
Roamer: Pauldogg
Demo: Vaati
Medic: ?

Looking mostly for a pocket scout that can maincall and a medic who can tell when that maincall is bad.

PREREQUISITES:
Comms
Mechies

Unironically this is gonna be a serious team with demo and map reviews and the like. We can get some folks up to speed on tactics before the season starts, but the comms and mechies you bring at the start is what we're gonna expect for the whole season, so they need to be good.

Contact me @https://steamcommunity.com/id/newmemes/ to ask for a tryout or to let me know that you have your own better invite team that you want added to the invite spreadsheet. ty :)

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I clocked the vast majority of these before I ever set foot on a comp team. ggs you will be missed

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carry