MartindalexC

Two posts in swedish? Disgusting behaviour. Two posts in finnish? All good in the hood bois

A beautifully prepared piece by our own cultivated virtuouso, one that is surely bound to rival even the greats of the literary world... - "The mildew is back on the walls..." we should really get that checked out some time... The puck is dropped, as play begins. Each team vying, for hard-earned wins. Captains and sticks, synchronously clash, The puck comes loose, hordes pursue with dash. Well positioned iSvamp, takes control, To defend and assist, his duty and goal. A crisp pass takes the puck, to the left side, Where two giants, suddenly collide. For a split moment, there's an eternal mess. Possessions rotate, like in a game of chess. iSvamp was skating, exceptionally fast, The game was ending, a few seconds would last. Preparing for the shot, he fell as he slipped, Hitting the ice, his front teeth got chipped. It looked like he just, forgot how to skate. But how is this possible? just turned twenty-eight. He looked like a mushroom, wearing red and white, Picked up the puck, and began to bite. His teammates realized, he forgot to take his pills, Which explained his madness, and his last year, lack of skills. The doctor came out, and realized for sure. That a Elite trophy, is the only cure.

You're not wrong, but I personally can't really blame the dude since a ban is pretty important and I think any gm would appreciate that kinda shit upfront.

I'm sorry if I'm missing something but how is being forthright about being banned a bad thing? Edit: Am gm

Northern Ascendancy are searching for a centre for the upcoming elite season. The role will be a backup to Anrh17, that said however you will most likely play in atleast 50% of ecl games. If you are interested in said 'backup' role but don't like centre that much, feel free to message me anyway as we can rotate some players around.

NOR announces the signing of Edward Nash (Nasherxx)

So where's the tournament?

Interesting design choice pairing Uncle Sam with some cyrillic text

'Twas satire

Favoured by the knights?

That's not nice

Hold up, why aren't all teams from the nhl in the poll? lol

lul

I'm not sure what you mean. Hz rate doesn't matter as myself and others have pointed out. (As long as it's 60, although I don't think monitors are even manufactured below that now) As for resolution, having a ps pro will allow nhl to look nicer on a 1080p screen but a 1440p or 4k screen will be needed to get the full, or near full benefit from the system.

[nhl as an] 'eSport' https://clips.twitch.tv/SpinelessHumbleTroutSoBayed

Aina goes ham...

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He probably did: Elite + Pro = 2 leagues = 2 Lite = 1 League = 1 2 + 1 = 3 2/3 = .66 .66 = 66% Flawless logic really

I mean, if a lite team finished above them in the playoffs then they should have a higher priority than Old Farts if a spot is open in pro. If they are 'good enough' to had have an elite spot for ECL 4 then they should have been good enough to clinch promotion through the playoffs anyway. [Edit] Also can we appreciate how painful it is to go look through previous tournaments' playoff stages? Seriously, unless I'm being retarded and missing something plainly obvious, how hard is it to make a playoff tree?

No, if an elite team disbands and reforms they would be placed in pro. And yes they should be, since they are better than the best lite teams, sorry but it's true. If the lite team got promotion, they would get promoted, if not, then you can't complain that an ex-elite team takes a vacancy NOT filled by regular promotion. Small core? Dude I have no idea what you're trying to get at? Since the context of my post was that they'd lose their place in the top division by reforming, something that is in the rules right now anyway and won't be affected by the proposed rule change.

What? No, that's not related to this in anyway in regards to the money involvement. The players would lose their spot in the top division though? I don't see your point since they'd be relegated into pro, so then one team from pro would be promoted. Again, what? I will say it certainly feels like there's a mentality of 'yes-men' here but I've said that before. I don't think people are 'bullying' admins or anything like that if I read your message correctly.

You have to realise however that by increasing elite to 22 teams, all the actual 'good' teams from pro will be there instead of, well, pro. Thereby increasing the skill difference between playoff bound teams in elite and any respective team from pro. Plus you still aren't compensating for the fact that the pro (and lite) team had a much easier time getting to the playoffs than any of the elite teams did. Look I get what you're trying to do but as I've said previously, making it so that teams below elite can make it to the 'real' playoffs is just insulting to elite teams that didn't make said playoffs, plus it's completely pointless because it's nulifying the whole point of a division system, to keep teams segregated until they've proven that they can hang with the group higher than them. Finally, I'm just gonna say that it shouldn't be possible during normal league play for every single team to be able to win the 'cup'. If however there was a once a year tournament where there was a proper seeding and round robin / swiss system and all that jazz then sure, but yea, as much as I would like that, it ain't happening because of this random ass division system.

Let's take a look at csgo. Team that is top 30 in the world decides to join a new org and make a new team -> Event organisers realise they can't throw this new team in the lower divisions because it's a waste of time and will only serve to annoy people -> Ergo they place the new team in invite leagues and things above 'open'. Translated, a new team would be able to play in Pro because they're clearly good enough to play in it. Lite should be there for brand spanking new teams that have new players that don't have a proven skill level. "Fastlane" for pro is only there for proven teams and players, not new ones. Plus lite is at the beginner level as others have wrote, such a league is neccessary and is prevalent across many games and e-sports, you want to complain about it, fine, but you can't argue that it'll 'close the community' as that's just plain wrong.

You misunderstand me, I wasn't advocating for pro teams to be able to play in the elite playoffs. Based on your example a pro team would make the playoffs over elite teams, despite it not being clear whether they're even better than the elite team(s) they're replacing, plus they'd have had a much easier path into the playoffs than said elite team(s). Sure this is a 'community' that likes to compete, but there's a difference between being irrational and logical. Elite is called elite for a reason, thusly the elite playoffs is quite literally, the 'elite of the elite', sure you have to actually get promoted to elite before being able to play but that's fine imo. Sure, I get it people want to be inclusive and make this a happy place league where "everyone can win" but come on now, pro teams making the playoffs in place of elite teams is lunacy.

@Peacerich_se In terms of skill I wouldn't rule out lower elite teams being close in skill to top pro teams, truth be told the skill discrepancy between the 'top of elite' and the lower end is pretty damn large as is anyway. That said however, the difference between any 'top' lite teams and any elite teams is so huge I would even venture to say the elite team could start 0-3 down and still win. As for the pro teams the skill gap is of course not as insane, but at the end of the day they're playing in pro to get promoted to elite, why should they have more access to elite playoffs then actual elite teams? You say that the best teams in lite (atleast a few) would be better than lower elite teams, sorry but that's just wrong. No offence to Hawks Hockey Club / Old Farts / Dynamo Danglers / Dead End Kings but I think even they could tell you that they wouldn't stand a chance in elite playoffs. Pro division, there's an argument to be had for sure, but it's still a little silly that a pro team could face lesser skilled opponents to make the playoffs than an actual elite team would. And sorry but if having to be in elite to win the cup annoys you then there's an easy remedy for that... get good enough to play in elite, it's pretty simple.