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If you would be shit in high then might as well be shit in prem if the oppertunity presents itself and it did for lode emone and upp.

To be fair, hePPa managed to snatch some points off other teams last season even though everyone thought it wouldn’t. Who knows, maybe upp and emo’s will do the same… against each other.

Quoted from MS

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People still care in NA HL :D

Highlander in NA is much more popular, 214 teams at the moment.

The spots in Prem have to be filled by teams. Reducing the number of teams won’t help anyone. So my question is: Who else (that also applied for it) should have been in Prem instead of the teams that are in it now?

Side note: I am already oddly confused that it says “divs” instead of “tiers” in the thread title, interesting.

I’m not arrogant or diluded enough to think that we (emone) will do well this season. That said I don’t see any reason why we couldn’t beat Unpoppable, WASP, maybe even fE or some of the other more established Prem teams.

I think there’s quite a lot of competition around our level (top high / low prem by the provisional divs). I can’t look at the teams now because I’m on my phone but there are a good few teams in high who would have been equally worthy to play in the qualifiers. Perhaps next season a good method to sort out the prem spots would be to conduct a mini tournament rather than to pick four arbitrary teams for qualifiers. The drama last season (voodoo and heppa) and this season (emone and upp) suggests that people think there are more worthy teams for the prem spots. So why not take the bottom three prem teams and the top three high teams and run a tournament to sort out who deserves the spots?

That or take Scissors suggestion and drop Prem to 6 teams (although I understand why that’s not a great idea).

Anyway, I’ll take the medal and see if we can’t pull something out of the bag and get a few wins :)

Quoted from Scissors

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If we reduce the number of teams and increase the amount of games, we get closer games and more accurate seedings. It also makes prem more exclusive and desirable, which is a good thing, since you actually have to try to get in it again.

Scissors, your argument hasn’t changed since last season even though people expressed their strong negativity towards this kind of elitism.

I personally think that 6-team premiership could work, but if you want it to actually happen you will have to find other ways to persuade people.

Quoted from Munky

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Things just feel so much healthier over there.

Source: Played NA Plat till RL kept putting me to sleep.

It would be hard to deny that Highlander is not only taken much more seriously but the development of the meta and overall skill through divisions is higher than in EU. There’s too much “lol hl” here.