The merc rules needs a change when it comes to 6s as there is nothing preventing people from denying all mercs, not even their social status as everyone can blame someone else who was on the team at the time and people won't bother more than that. ETF2L isn't big enough to warrant every team having substitute players and being forced to play 5v6 is super lame.
As for the official I find it a bit annoying that they were given an option to restart the granary map when we tied and had to play golden cap, I was told to play scout at this point which I did and we won. Only then do they take a default win. We were never given the option to replay the map.