In other words, we are pushing teams up to be the punching bag for upper division teams. How does this bring competitive value to the league?
Yes and no. You are bringing up teams that will absolutely get "shit on" by the top teams, for example in invite almost every team that is not seeds 1 and 2 will be getting rolled by seeds 1 and 2. And in the case that you bring up MULTIPLE teams, that now becomes the bottom of the division where they will compete against each other. Do you think that losing to the same 10 or so players who have won advanced every season in advanced would be competitive for the rest of the people in that division?
Are you saying if you got moved up to Advance from Main, you can just scrim main teams and just take the loss on match day? I'm sorry, but if your team can only compete in the division below then maybe you should be in that div? Call me crazy.
Yeah you could absolutely just scrim main teams if you get moved up to advanced, hell even an invite team could scrim exclusively newcomer teams. You should talk to the rest of your division about whether or not those scrims provide any value to you, and if not, cancel them. Not a soul is forcing you to scrim them. This point doesn't really make sense at all. And because I was talking about the invite moveups please look at the league table right now as of week 4:
https://imgur.com/a/PQ7DUAF
DZCreatures is definitely a mid invite team, and the [REDACTED] is at the very least competitive with BigBrainComp? which is going on playing their 3rd season of invite.
I think improving to the point of being able to have someone else cut their main rostered player for you is insane. Teams are not always worried about having who is "best" cause that is always subjective. I imagine that these players that out-improve their team will just end up as subs on better teams.
As someone who has been on the receiving end of both sides of that statement, yes, they absolutely are worried about who has the best players. Yeah some people might get the call-up to a team just to be a sub, but they use that opportunity to get their foot in the door, and potentially get playtime or even a main spot on a different team using that experience that they acquired. This is a competitive league, and you can ask almost every team leader whether or not they try to get the best players available to them, and I would bet that they would say yes.