what did he mean by this?

ok really the question would be like 2011/2012 team vs IM team

late to post but
nip 3-0
navi vita g2 gmb faze liquid heroic
eg 0-3

unlucky on the 3-0 deciders matchups :(

if u have tried enough huds to be able to make a full tier im just gonna assume ur an insane person

top 3 scariest music to women:
3. billboard top 40 rap
2. late 90s indie dreampop
1. 2010s pitchforkcore

beware this types of music around women!

hannah is hannah backwards

godsent over either of the two teams they just lost to ?

im not paying for pickems this year but challenger stage seems dirt easy. the only real conundrum is whether to be a chad and pick tyloo 0-3

sleeper picks are going to be Entropiq and maybe Cph Flames over BIG VP or Ence

Ence and BIG are probably good 3-0 picks. BIG are less likely to make it, Ence have been doing especially well in group stage type games but could also reasonably not make the cut

mr_poop

needed gf

chunkeyyy

https://i.imgur.com/TakWai5.png

shut da fuck up! fuck yourself! cocksucker!!!

It's not a new issue but I feel like it's worse than it used to be.

Partly I think that despite their issues, ESEA's roster moveup rules encouraged a lot more teams to move up as a team. If you were even one of the better players on a low playoffs open team, would you take your free spot on an IM team with your moveup roster, or take your chances LFTing for IM without a great e-resume?

Now there's almost no incentive to move up with your team unless you absolutely believe in them. Everyone wants to go at least 8-8 in their first season in every div now so they all go LFT I firmly believe this leads to moveup teams losing their best players more consistently, thus struggling and losing motivation to stay together.

Also (this is part of a whole other theory) I believe the rise of discord has killed the classic idea of strong friend groups/circlejerks, which were a major source of long term teams. When you hang out every night in voice with the same 8 dudes, you're generally gonna be making teams based around playing with those dudes for as long as its viable. Now people just post the same sped up gifs in the 23 identical tf2 discords they're in with the same 93 people in them. Season ends, team discords die, rinse and repeat.

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.