My pick for playoff contender teams just based off spreadsheet in this thread rn (thank you jemond). Ordering is pretty rough unless otherwise stated. This is obviously very early but I'm bored, feel free 2 get mad at me.

Tier 1: Probably playoff shoo-ins
1. GYROS OF MAIN - Bane is goated, 2 players who won main last season (on different combat class + med granted but math seems to be doing well), macron/bananana/trees have synergy. My pick for clear strongest team rn.

2. PERUTECH - 4th last season, retains some core players and have good pickups, seem to be doing well in scrims

3?. Cat Noises Black - Sushi diff (other players are good as well)

3?. WANG gang - Synergy from last season, expect them to continue improving and do well

5. Magic City - This team has 2 flank scouts at heart but they're both good, baba has good dm so definite potential. Hope they keep sale_boat.

Tier 2: Wild West - Think they could all make it but trading scrims with teams not listed or haven't really scrimmed yet

Sexo
Fat Peter
Go Raw - Returning playoff players so can't count them out even if some are offclassing
Throne team - See above

yes please i want to derust without ruining a pug by being shit lol

only known player able to carry aim demo, goat

This is part of the problem but not the whole issue, the UGC servers just kinda suck in general. I ping well to some of their hightower servers (even though they all list similar ping on the server browser including the EU server, very cool) but they all feel like dogshit and the difference is immediately obvious when you switch to casual hightower even with similar playercount. UGC MGE server is similar, idk what's up with it (never restarts???) but it always feels giga ass. Don't think it's a framerate thing either, just spinning in spawn room feels worse on the UGC servers lol.

can tryout now please fuel my addiction

romanians make a good post challenge (impossible)

hey babe

epic

sniper player though so unfortunately does carry a certain stinkiness

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hello I am here again to perpetuate this infinite cycle, really feeling the itch to play. flank scout in main preferably.
(cannot tryout until after the new year)

made playoffs last time i played would be very cool to do that again

powerful aura type player

Completely agree, I mentioned map scheduling when it should've just been scheduling in general.

This being said, in a tiebreak situation do you think wins against playoff teams should also be considered compared to just the H2H among the teams fighting for the remaining spots? As an example, minions this season have a win over image during regular season (and a dominant win at that), while none of the remaining 9-7 teams have playoff team wins (besides other 9-7 teams). A team that has like 2 wins over higher seed playoff teams would probably have a better chance of doing better in playoffs, but it would feel shitty to have them yoink that last seed if you, as a team with the same W/L, beat them and every other team in H2H. Interested to see your opinion.

I think if your system for finding the top 8 playoff teams is to identify the top 8 "best" teams, and you choose W/L as your primary metric for determining team skill, using RW% as a secondary metric is not insane. After all, if your goal is to just identify the best 8 teams, why do I care about how you did vs. a team that wouldn't even be in playoffs by this ranking system. I would care more about how you did vs. the division as a whole. This is especially true if you use the (what I think is) ideal definition of team skill, that being the the average probability of defeating any other team in the division.

That being said though I still think H2H is the way to go for tiebreaks because the forced map schedule makes the variance during the regular season way higher than if it were pick/ban, even with 16 matches compared to something like highlander's 7/8. Makes me more inclined to say fuck it and just reward W's over everything.

put exile (brainlet) into the dirt with his impeccable liberty launcher + panic attack theory

very strong + ideal teammate

currently in a swing state so my vote is worth approximately 57 new yorkers

reading this thread and realizing there's a nonzero chance you were as cringe or worse when you were 15

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