AsecDivisions exist to divide the teams into groups to try and ensure fair games.
Letting a team of top players play in a division they don't belong in, is an objectively bad idea.
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most of us playing have limited time and no scrim open has the highest "fun to time spent playing" ratio currently available in comp tf2. some of us play overwatch, some of us have family, some of us have real jobs. no scrim + offclassing is a lot more fun than playing real classes + possibly scrimming (yikes).
Its called open because its not specified as the low tier skill level division exclusively, then it would be called ESEA-Low, ESEA-Mid, and so on. The divisions were created with the format where top level competition is directly moved to invite (hence invite and not HIGH) IM was used to filter up higher skilled open teams that stayed together and progressed their skill level and expressed the desire to compete in a higher division, and OPEN is used to introduce new rosters to the league (be it low tier, brand new, or "sandbagging") This is the most accessible division for players with experience who don't have the time, are new to the division, or are a newly formed team, its simple as that. On top of that ESEA has rules that restrict any roster from just jumping divisions, or used to (I gather admins do move ups nowadays) but most of us are not used to that, nor do we care. The open teams complaining about sandbagging over the seasons is just a crutch for their frustration in losing, if your goal is to NOT meet competition head on, then you shouldn't be playing in ESEA. Most of these players complaining are a product of a younger generation of people who get prizes for just showing up (or losing) because they have everything handed to them and want to feel their competitiveness is validated even through failure. You want to win open? you want to be better? nut the fuck up and get better, we all did it at one point without complaining about players better than us being in our division.
Back when i started in ESEA, open teams HAD to play against invite teams because there was only 1 division, and some of us who got our shit pushed in by the top players in the game still stuck around and eventually became better players ourselves, quit making bullshit complaints and learn to progress instead of making excuses for yourself.
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