None of the teams we're thinking about as 'sandbagging' (namely, quantum flux and budsquad, but also other teams like mesr's and r5) are good enough to play in invite as they're currently made up so the only place for htem to go is open. I don't love the rule, but as is it's the way it works.

If there were some team who was steamrolling open made up of former invite players I'd rather see them get wrecked in invite than destroy open, but that's not happening. Frankly I don't think any of the 'sandbag' teams are even going to win the division, much less steamroll it.

To actually answer your question, I think most people want to move up whether they practice for it or not. I assume these guys play this game to win, just like we do. Just becuase they can do it without putting as much time and effort in as the rest of us plebs do doesn't mean they don't care at all about it.

i played electric bass in high school, it was pretty cool

http://i.imgur.com/p3HvipI.jpg

i had the tattoo before the alias

pretty good player, saved my team from forfeiting a match last season.

good luck finding a team, yo

yo who is this mister slin character anyways

say i just want to play a normal fuckign game with no gujys who saing gay to me and shut up and shut the fuck up to me

say god forbid i get meleed from melee range, no we have to be playing tf2 the game with the worst fuckign netcode on the planet

lol

fucking broking tho

"Walking into mid... oh, i'm dead" -key every single mid

"don't drop me on this uber"

If you can't handle me at my worst, you definitely don't deserve me at my best. - Betsy Ross

I said, excuse me, you're a hell of a guy. I mean my, my, my, my you're like pelican fly.
-Eleanor Roosevelt

i do this with only geknaiir

this is only tangentially related, but don't try to be mysterious when you're talking with people or w/e. A lot of nerds try this when they're in large group settings. You are not the respected loner. It comes off as creepy. Be open, friendly, and honest. A smile and a joke or compliment will ensure that people remember you in a positive light and it'll make all future interactions with them a lot easier.

People react positively to positivity. It's easy to introduce yourself to someone. Walk up to them, smile, shake their hand, and introduce yourself. People who get anxious over this stuff tend to overthink things. It's not weird at all to just introduce yourself to someone who you don't know, if you're in a place for a shared reason (like a meeting or seminar or class or whatever). Just be positive and friendly, even if you're nervous. Force yourself to smile or at least put on a pleasant expression. Even if you're nervous as hell, if you're smiling, it hides so much of your nervousness from whoever you're talking to.

i'm cringing really hard right now, help