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Hello fellow etf2l players and (hopefully) admins. Today, for the first time in a long time, I bring you something to (hopefully) think about when you (hopefully) think about improving the league for future seasons :)

What I propose is a change in the Playoff system the league uses specifically for Highlander, where in the current system, the 3rd and 4th teams face each other, after which the winner of that faces the 2nd etc.

Now the issue I personally noticed while playing on this level for some time is that due to highlander teams never keeping their rosters intact after a season (due to hmm, i guess no competitions ever might be a thing affecting that xD hehe), the teams tend to stop playing after they get eliminated from the competition. It really doesnt help that there is such a huge skill difference between the playoff teams and 7th place teams that still have something to play for most of the time.

What this basically means is that, let’s imagine you are Fair Enough this season. For the 3 weeks of playoffs that you have to practice for your only official for, you have, at this point, 0 active teams to practice against that aren’t new projects or roster shuffles or mixes/high teams. You can’t even practice against the only other active team, Strong Opinions, since its a trend in TF2 to not practice against the opponent you are facing next week.

From personal experience as a player and as a spectator, I have felt the impact of this, simply put, it feels really ass to not have teams to play against in the playoff time! For the 3rd/4th game it’s still somewhat okay, you potentially have the 2nd/1st seed to play against in practice and warmup, but for the semi- and grand finals, once (or both) teams have to warmup (and practice) against honestly terrible teams, which (personally in my opinion etc) has a considerable effect on the readiness of the teams, which makes the quality of games lower than in the main season

Now for the main idea I’d like to see implemented: Having a 2-week regular playoff system in the shape of 1st seed vs 4th seed, 2nd seed vs 3rd seed. From that, you have the winners final for the winners to determine the champion, and the losers finals to determine who gets 3rd place in the season.

The good points of what I propose is first off, it makes the season 1 week shorter which seems to be something ETF2L always strives for, and it also keeps the top4 teams active for the same amount of time so that they can practice against each other in quality scrims, keeping them ready for the finals. I won’t list any bad points because that would be detrimental towards my cause lol haha, feel free to shittalk my idea with no structure behind your arguments though, it’s always great and enjoyable to read those posts.

Thank you for reading, sorry for not shitposting to all my fans :* especially you bulow also sorry for any typos or badly structured paragraphs, its 5 am and i am too lazy to proofread

Would it be worth considering having the entire prem playoffs occur in the space of one week?

It’s ok Muuki, you tried your best. Playoffs are currently too long, they should be 2 weeks max i.e. 4 team 1st vs 4th, 2nd vs 3rd/3teams with 2nd vs 3red, winner plays 1st. Fix this kkaltuu, right now. It’s literally been about 2 and a half years of these criticisms.

#thanksbloodis
#fuckkaltuu

well maybe you should get your playoff practice before the playoffs begin, crazy idea.

Quoted from HartzFartz

well maybe you should get your playoff practice before the playoffs begin, crazy idea.

maybe get to playoffs once before talking shit you cuntmonger

edit: sorry, forgot to add the word “retarded” in there

Quoted from Hildreth

There have been many many suggestions made about league structure all ignored by admins, so some trash talk would have helped the cause Muuq. Disappointed.

Is that under an assumption that any suggestion not acted upon is ignored? Because you seem to mention that a lot (and a lot of other people too).

I agree with Muuki, that way of doing the playoffs would be vastly preferable