and they lost the div who cares

People complained "we cant win open because of stacked teams" yet those stacked teams were the only reason winning Open meant literally anything. Any time an up and comer pulled it off and beat the sandbag team in finals you KNEW that was a good team.

The only functional problem with sandbagging was that maybe one or two games in your season were lost before they started, but that was a problem for like 95% of teams anyway due to the large skill disparity (still true to a degree). Overall it always looped back to people crying that they lost to a team because that team was better than them.

I don't think people who sandbag have healthy brains and they're generally unlikeable people but it's just not the end of the world. You go "oh no, I lost to people better than me" and move on.

This was tried in CS as a showmatch at Katowice 2016. Different game obviously but there's plenty of similar principles.

Astralis (ranked #4 at the time, ended up losing in semis at the main event) played vs 2 different teams of random matchmaking players (ranked between GN4 and SMFC), where Astralis tried winning rounds (CT side only) with as few team members as possible, starting with only Device.

It was restricted to one side of the map (Dust2 A site), which favors the CT in terms of manpower, but also allows Ts to commit to a full 5 man execute without worrying about retakers or lurkers. The closest equivalent in the TF2 version would probably be to prohibit backcapping, to force a legitimate teamfight.

Device alone got overwhelmed after only 1 kill
Device + Cajunb went 5-0 while trying to zeus people
Karrigan alone won his first 2 rounds but ended 2-5
Karrigan + Cajunb went 5-2

VOD/Cast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-OR3UJVvdI

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hmm

grimace is a mid-t4 wp map with one cornerpogo that makes it t5 for some reason

i mean realistically this rule only works based on admin discretion
theres always players that are insane for their div yet dont make playoffs for whatever reason, and always players that are just ok and do make playoffs
the community is small enough, especially once you get to Main, that a well-connected admin can reasonably assess players individual skill level without defaulting to league records

u also absolutely have to use discretion with offclassing. im pretty sure sin karma hasnt played a season of scout, should he be allowed to scout in main?

why not just ring a main player

Grant "b4nny" Vincent (born July 27, 1993) is an American Team Fortress 2 player currently playing Soldier for froyotech.

what are your views on the recent police brutality issues in the united states?

just for starters im pretty sure ur not supposed to ffw someone by just reporting a 3-0 match score lol

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in what world is the scheduling issue Reize's fault lol

reading comprehension?

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imagine following up your invite debut by trying to scum ffws in main and then saying the n word

sotoallmyjoesaretojos

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da scheduling psycho