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UGC EU Platinum is everything between Prem and div6 now days, which is why many teams don’t partake in it or don’t take it serious.
If they would put a skill requirement on platinum, maybe it would become interesting again. And since Etf2l is repeating the same map pool, there should be some interest in UGC.

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Quoted from Hidi

Subsets per every eight teams in a divisions.

Those are meaningless and random. The only reason they exist is so the seasons last 6 weeks instead of 400.

EU Plat = Prem-Div2
EU Gold = Div2-Div4
EU Silver = Div4-Div5
EU Steel = Div4-Div6
EU Iron = Div6

But NA Plat is much stronger than EU Plat, since most of the higher level teams in Europe don’t play UGC. Well then, now for comparing ETF2L and NA UGC we can hypothetically assume that EU and NA are equal in terms of skill, so we have the following percentage of teams in each division:
NA Plat = 4% of teams in NA UGC, NA Gold = 9%, NA Silver = 24%, NA Steel = 38%, NA Iron = 25%
EU Prem = 7% of teams in ETF2L, EU d1 = 7%, EU d2 = 7%, EU d3 = 7%, EU d4 = 20%, EU d5 = 20%, EU d6 = 33%

So we would have:
NA Plat = Prem
NA Gold = Prem – Div 1
NA Silver = Div 2 – Div 4
NA Steel = Div 4 – Div 6
NA Iron = Div 6

Again, that’s assuming the Best NA team = Best EU team, Worst NA team = Worst EU team and Median NA team = Median EU team, and pings don’t put you at a disadvantage as well. Also keep in mind Americans have more teams than Europeans, which is a huge factor as well.

Quoted from quintosh

na silver is like div4…

I remember a showmatch between a mid silver NA team and mid div 3 ETF2L team, the game was close, but Euros won that one while having a ping disadvantage.

But then again my calculation is flawed, since NA has nearly 2 times as much teams, so the 7th team in NA would transfer to the 4th team in EU in my calculations.
It really depends if NA having more teams means more talent or more whipping boys.

EU Platinum = Prem-Div6
EU below platinum = pub

I miss UGC season 6 seeding. It was so good. You had every team ever in one div, and when playoffs hit the shelf you were separated into divs according to your seeding, so you had 16 actually good teams in plat, then silver, steel, iron.

Made me want to put in some more extra effort to get into the div I wanted.

Platinum nowadays has a large skillgap anyway so it literally wouldn’t make a difference.

Although one could debate it’d be a faceroll for new teams.

Quoted from 4hp

Then we’d have new teams possibly playing against prem teams… I remember that my very first highlander game was against Chessclub back when they were steel. Not quite the same thing but damn that wasn’t fun

There’s nothing wrong with that. We played Prem teams in our first season of UGC, got completely shit on, and carried on anyway. I can’t imagine there being a team in the top few divisions of ETF2L that hasn’t been completely outclassed at some point – it’s a good learning experience. You can’t win every game, but you can learn from them.