to add onto what corsa said you can just use statusspec (or whatever the new version of it is called) to add on the player killfeed things so it's easier to tell whats happening

the bugs open team had mausy and newspeak who are both miles better than any open player
that team was definitely a sandbag team even if it wasnt all 6 players they are both fucking lords at tf2 and carried the fuck out of that team
edit:
also mgib only played for a few matches and was backing up
ranga and stoperr both had im/invite experience and i think nick had played in im with cloudmaker before but still not really a sandbag team
towards the end of that season luxor's team picked up cheesymacgyver and hivemind i think which is probably more of a 'sandbag' if u want to call it that

Anyone know if there's a way to do PC rentals? Not sure I trust myself to not let my desktop get destroyed en route...

tfw still no open stvs...

I Do Not Add Toxic (Idiot Hating) Players . . . Sorry :(

Not sure exactly how to interpret this but it's already the case that the minimum prize from invite (namely, fourth place: $2100 per team, or $2590 subtracting fees, which is still around $430 a person) is bigger than any of the prizes in open or IM ($1500 and $1000 respectively, or $250 and $166.66 each). Getting fifth place or otherwise narrowly missing playoffs does suck though because you have a net loss of $510 per team (not to mention the time investment from scrimming regularly and starting matches at 11est) with nothing to show for it.
This could also be interpreted as having invite teams that don't make playoffs get a smaller cut of the prize money as an incentive to finish the season and get some sort of reimbursement for dropping $85 a piece, but I don't think that would be very wise. For example, if it were the case that everyone won money regardless of their place you could have last place teams that coast all season with no incentive to get better because they know they will already get money, even if they don't scrim and are terribad.
https://play.esea.net/index.php?s=news&d=comments&id=14846 (most recent prize breakdown I could find on google)

As others have said I doubt anybody has played strictly for the money, if you wanted money you would play overwatch or get a real job with an hourly wage. As far as I see it it's perfectly fine to have fun with your buds in open and collect a check afterwards. My first season of open (s17) ended up with dingo+5 vs hero+5 but nobody complained on the forums or got butthurt about it. The way I saw it, it was a good thing because it gave my team the opportunity to play teams better than us and give us a challenge. It's like scrimming teams that are in a division higher than you (in playoffs for example when it's harder to find scrims), sure you might get out DM'd and generally out played but if you never go out of your comfort zone and keep playing shit open teams you will never improve. The second season I played open (s19) it was being 'sandbagged' by 6cuties who were supposedly unbeatable but we took it as a challenge and didn't care that they had a bunch of 'invite players'. Since we didn't whine and moan like a bunch of babies we were able to actually play tf2 and ended up beating them in a super close golden cap (probably because paddie wasn't playing that night lol). The point is it's all about the way you look at things. If you ever go into a match thinking you're going to lose (because they have so many spooky ex low invite players :o) you're going to lose lol.

Please Assist My Good Friend And Teammate, Saam, In Achieving Above 130 Damage Per Minute In The North American Invitational Division :D (He Is Very Big Noob Scout & Need Your Help . . .)

https://play.esea.net/teams/74784

You should cast with him friendo

they didnt actually give out the prizes and paying for premium is aids

presumably saelot/oobii will play cause theyre paid up so i guess rip frootaloo
not sure who will play what maybe they'll put kawa on soldier and oobii on scout or something like that

both teams agreed on the match page to play it tonight at 1030 so i have no reason to believe otherwise

ding0d + 5 gnomes seems like a pretty strong team tbh

Go hildreth and crayon!

It's done at last! PogChamp

edit: not sure if it's just cause im trying to watch on a tiny phone screen but it's hard to tell who it is playing in each clip
sometimes the killfeed isn't there to read either cause it cuts to a smooth with no hud
name plates like in the tftv highlight videos would be a cool addition if you end up re-rendering it to avoid being muted or whatever

what i want to know is why did these apes waste $85 to die in a week