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might be worth looking into the percentage of US teams that drop vs EU teams.

i think an outright ban is a bit extreme since some of them do manage to finish the season (even though many dont. curious to see whether the prem US team will bother finishing)

a possible solution would be to just stick them all together with the brazilians in divs regardless of skill. what you end up with now (as giel mentioned) is that the rare HL season you only get to play 4 out of 7 or whatever games cause teams drop.

im still behind my suggestion of banning team leaders (and possibly players) from forming new teams for 1 season, as well as preventing them from playing in the current season IF they drop within 2 games

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not worth it to ban merican teams, too much hassle deciding fair rules which would also not take a bazillion hours to moderate. besides, what would you do? ban an all american team? 80% murican team? just prevent someone from joining more than 2 or 3 teams in a season, if that isnt already in place

Teams that do not show up to 3 games per season will be dropped and all their results nullified (unless past certain point) so if they keep doing that, that will happen.

European is in the name but idk i think its a eu league

If teams outside Europe want to play in the league with Europeans, then they should submit some screenshots of scrims vs EU teams. That would show that they’re willing and able to get 6/9 players turning up and playing. Of course, they should also have to submit screenshots if they want to skip divisions like everyone else.

100% of all Austrian teams dropped
100% of all Estonian teams dropped
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Sometimes I am wondering if people have an idea what they are talking about before they are posting.

If there’s one (there’s almost never two) American team in your division and it drops due to whatever reason… “Oh no the season is ruined for us, we have one official less than all the other divs” Seriously? Your whole season depends on having 7 officials instead of 6. In addition to that when an European team drops, you will also have one official less than all the other divs. Same effect, shocking isnt it?

What also does not work is putting all the teams in one division, there’s never enough teams to make an all American division. There might be like 8 teams, but they are not of the same skill level, so if you put all together regardless you just get a completely clusterfuck division, with no point in playing for the higher skilled as well as the lower skilled teams. Since one will get rolled and the other will get stomped. With very few in the middle having a little competetion.

And banning the team leaders from forming new teams… Has it ever come to your mind that it is not necessarily the team leaders fault if a team drops. Often enough the team leaders do everything they can to keep things together. In addition to that someone else could simply create the team, add the ex-team leader, give him leader rights and it is as if he created the team. Totally not up for abuse, right?

Same for banning everyone in the team from playing in the current or an upcoming season, often enough 2-3 players decide they do not want to play anymore, so we should punish the other 6-7+ as well, right?

How do we define European? Europe? European Union? Should we ban everyone from Israel (dont shoot me its an example :D) Should we exclude everyone from Eastern Russia? Or even all of Russia? I guess most of Turkey wont be able to play anymore as well then.
After all the Americans, if they sign up, have to play at European times, on European servers with European rules. If they think they can do that, fine, sign up. Enough European teams think they can do it and in the end they drop.

I may sound like an advocat for the American teams here, but to be honest, I do not really care if they play here or in the US or both. I just do not see why we should exclude them.
What I see though is people bringing up nonsense arguments without putting any thought into it and that is something I cannot stand at all.

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