ggs guys, wp rick ur crazy

Banning funny copypasta is literally the worst thing that has happened to watching this game. I don't understand it at all. It's like if a pro sports team banned the wave or some shit, because they want you to be able to have a conversation with the guy 5 rows down from you.
No dude. I want to get belligerently drunk and yell at my team to run the ball.
If you want to have a conversation about the game you turn to the the guy right next to you, or in our case the other goons watching the game in mumble or discord or whatever.
Let me have fun in twitch chat, it's fucking agonizing as it is now

>but in TF2's case, comparing eras when competition levels were different in the volume of players as well as what's on the line.

there are now more players and higher prize pools tho, by that logic the current era should be more important

like just opening a random "golden era" liquipedia page, the one for season 9, invite had 5.2k on the line. the last seasons of invite had >9k in prizes. ESEA also averaged having like ~80 teams in the whole league, while the last season of rgl had >140 teams

I didn't really mean it as an anti-destro post, and more that tery seems to think its more impressive to be good between 2008-2010 than e.g 2019-2021, which makes no sense to me. If alex and destro were both a top 2 demo for the same amount of time then they should receive about equal rankings, maybe alex a bit higher since on the eye test he's obviously much more skilled since he's playing in a later era where it's easier to get better. Instead we have destro at 50 and alex completely snubbed, which makes me question the methodology used to rank the players.

Like either alex should be here in this post right next to destro since their accomplishments are very similar, or both of them should have missed top 100, not one or the other, which indicates to me that theres some serious pro-old player bias/nostalgia in play. (Also branslam also has basically the same resume as destro with 4 playoff appearances, but branslam beat b4nny. Yet is somehow like 40 spots lower than destro??)

i really dont understand how alex.exe didnt make it when destro has like, the exact same resume but back in 2008 when everyone was bad and made top 50

kind of sadge that this is getting cancelled while other games like smash continue to run lans without any complications, bars are open, my uni has 400+ person in person lectures etc. Like can we not just require vaccination and masks inside the venue and call it a day like everyone else does.

i think some eye testing is a good thing, and i mostly agree with the skeez/freestate placements. Also without eye testing theres no way delpo is this high, and he definitely deserves this placement. also agree with mustard that the eye test should have done lolguy/campy some more favors though (and honestly sandblast too since hes often been the highest impact player on his teams).

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Branslam: 4 seasons, each top 4, with a championship
Rekuso: 13 seasons, 3 top 4s, zero championships

yet somehow he outranks branslam? Like I understand the bonus for being an invite mainstay for years, but IMO making playoffs every season with one of them being a win over froyo is significantly more impressive

i mean the insufferable ones are probably just good lol. i didnt say being in invite makes you likeable, i said being likeable makes it easier to get into invite.

Like theoretically think about player X and player Y. Both play invite. Player X is a terrible teammate, insufferable etc. but hes got great mechanics and calling so people play with him anyways. Player Y is pretty mediocre in that sense, but he has a really good attitude and people enjoy spending 5 nights a week with him, so they will pick him up over all the other mediocre players who are also annoying. I don't really believe in your imaginary player who is both insufferable and bad geting picked up every season, people would stop playing with them after one or two seasons.

news flash: people are more likely to want to play with you if you are a likeable person

i might put vhalin a bit higher

and muma should be significantly higher imo

yeah but alex literally beat froyo and top 2'd multiple times... Idk how that cant even be top 100. I'd probably have been comfortable putting alex in the top 60-70 just off that tbqh

why is there a week break between end of reg season and playoffs? it just pushes playoffs into finals season for students