let's hope for no wildcards

Russians gonna win

Predictions:
Hungary-rekt 1-2
Q? - FK 2-0
B52 - world stars 2-1

Div2
Zombie-pe 2-0
Qb - squad 1-2
Hey - raks 0-2

Div3
Pe- c&s 0-2
Anchors - gafb 0-2
Pt- op 0-2

Okay, I'll try as well:
Div1 Team Hungary vs Rekt 1:2
Div1 KogdaKvad vs #1 Falafel Kings 2:0 (mercy limits possible)
Div1 B52 vs Worldstar 1:2 (depends on lineups though, might be other way)
Div2 Quake Brothers vs I Love My Squad 2:1 (should be a close game)
Div2 Hey vs Raks 2:0 (mercy limits possible)
Div3 Placebo Effects vs Catz&Slipper 0:2 (mercy limits possible)
Div3 Anchors vs get armor frag bitches 0:2
Div3 Platige Team vs OverPowered 2:0

you all got it wrong , a cointoss Bo3 win in the last minute :D
GG wp KogdaKvad :)

yep, and an overtime! That was rly tense, such a close game!
GGS! =)

Yeah, the 3 games were really very good. We enjoyed them. Disapointed the cointoss failed us in the last minute coz a win there would have been nice for our new little team :)

VOD?

https://www.twitch.tv/videos/134742061 - starting from 29 mins, or:
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/134765827

Maybe you even have Quake Brothers vs I Love My Squad?

Sure thing :]
https://youtu.be/vRgo2phfFGs?t=204

Magician with bottomless hat of VODs!!

Well I guess it's too late anyway, but how would I go about finding a team willing to take in a TDM noob like myself, so I can learn some basic quake teamplay? ;)

check hoq discord channel, they have a recruitment channel :)

Didn't know that. Thanks, man :)

Distribution of teams in divisions puzzles us.
Every season, looking at the team table, we see numerous unbalanced decisions.
After all, there really IS a possibility to sort it out correctly.

Let's take an objective look, there is a chance to bring a competition which will be interesting for everyone:

- for participating players, who will not encounter too strong or too weak opponents on their groups. Match with a margin break of 50 frags brings no pleasure to anyone;
- for streamers, who will not lose time due to matches of boredom, with absolutely no struggle;
- for viewers, falling asleep while watching matchups, in which one of the teams does not even have a chance to impose any rivalry, and the result is known in advance;

In my opinion, this season divisions two&three are biased by controversial decisions:

Div2:
- 'hey', a team with two Div1 players. they beats Div1 team quite confidently, and beat Div2 teams on mercylimit

Any player can guess easily, they beat everyone with such a distribution for sure in div2

Div3:
- Platige, the team that was running toe-to-toe with raks, qlpa, zombei last season. Why didnt they move to division two? We recently trained with them and lost lots of maps, as well as Zombei team did.

I think they are able to beat half the teams in division two, so how did they end up in Div3?

- c&s, although the team is new, its players are all familiar with russian pickup, and, judging by their rating and past trainings, can also beat many teams at division two.

If you estimate their strength, as appropriate for division three, then why are there no teams such as raks and qb (qlpa)?

Of course, it's all difficult and impossible to perfectly balance the divisions, but some solutions are obviously not in their place

100%

agree on 'hey' , they should join div1 for for the sake of sportsmanship! The lineup looks quite strong w/o inclusion of femme_fatale.

ELO:
1700 - omen
1871 - 421
1366 - femme_fatale
1620 - real_grubby
1875 - Alostraz
1528 - N0tnice
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1660 - avg

Except 421 is actually worth about 2000-2100 :D

That's okay, just leave 'Em alone and let them rape the noobZzZ! Otherwise some players will accuse you of plotting, shenanigans and exerting pressure on admins etc.
And you'll be anathematized and crucified afterwards! xD

xpeHOPE3: 421, how does it feel to use zoom?
xpeHOPE3: afaik you didn't use it before
421: hi
421: so you're the greatest analyst?

Guess I found my way into eternity!

+

Unax team into div2 of 3, depending on where there's a bigger need for some swapsies. He'll drop them out anyway :D

Not this time ! :D

Added a late signup Chess Club to div3

rekt vs hun won't happen this Sunday.

Zombei vs Pandæmonium (div2): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHIg9gtvyfI&t=9s
And sorry for the wrong teamnames is the VOD :)

KogdaKvad vs Falafel Kings (div1) : https://goo.gl/KGawhC

Anchors vs get armor frag bitches (div3): https://goo.gl/0pj07z