to be clear, I have never had issues with forced team moveups (or at least asking really really persistently) when invite literally needs more teams. problem is, that's not what happened this offseason; my team (rip) was force moved up when they still thought there would literally be 10-11 teams, simply because we were outperforming dunk masters in scrims.

because daffodil believes its his job to save the community from itself and to "right the wrongs" of esea

see: forced invite moveups, forced changes to map pool, etc.

everything in rgl by definition is based on admin bias because they don't poll people before making any of these decisions

whether the bias is "I want the league to be like x because it's good for my team" or "I want the league to be like x because it's how I always thought tf2 ought to be" is honestly irrelevant to me, when a few random admins have too much power things will naturally turn out in ways that the majority of the community don't like

honestly this wouldn't have been such a terrible idea if the timing weren't so awful, even aside from arguments about who should be moved up or down, no one likes the psychological effect of going from mid-high in ur div to bottom of your div (or high in a lower div) without being consulted first

I support smaller divs in the future but yeah don't do this on such short notice

Hello, this is froot's mother. I regret to inform you that froot was just hit by a bus and killed. He will not be able to participate in the invite division this season. The kactus has been wactused.

6-team invite looking fat

I was under the impression that the gold standard was the world's 50 best list:
https://www.theworlds50best.com/list/1-50

I ate at #9 btw and it was incredible :)

I guess you meant halfway through the offseason

have you ever been to ny or are you literally just talking about dominos

nah because I was lucky enough to not grow up in the suburbs

only if you prefer neapolitan pizza to ny style!

(although I've heard some people lowkey prefer pizza from rome which I've never had)

yeah playing horse with your dad and your little sister and then going to chuck e cheese after sure sounds fun!

https://origin-www.nycgo.com/images/venues/4787/rucker-park-harlem-manhattan-nyc-photo-kate-glicksberg_1141__x_large.jpg

p.s. the problem with the uk is that their entire history of good local produce, seafood etc. was singlehandedly eradicated by the existence of this video:

https://twitter.com/Hector_E_Alcala/status/1261434461318610944

america has plenty of great food, the problem is we also invented these open-air prisons called "suburbs" where all happiness goes to die

some of us were blessed to live in places w/ more consistently good nosh tho!

although I will say it's hard to top places like spain and france for sheer consistency (with probably the single best food city I've ever been to being san sebastian)

I would say doom and atcq are vastly better than aesop rock so idk where I fit in that equation

good shout