@Rene said in Harassment in the RGL Community:

@rona, I’ll admit I’ve been a piece of shit, and it’s a shame that you’re going out this way, but you could legit play 6’s. It’s way more fun, but it looks like you’re deadset on leaving. I wasn’t involved in all the IRL stuff that people gathered about you. I actually didn’t even know that was going on, but people fed me certain things, and I was a fool for believing some of it. Highlander went to shit a long time ago, and it’ll only get worse due to the moderating. Everything needs to get reformed to save this dying format.

You’re literally part of the problem. You’ve been harassing my team leader through any means possible. Whether through harassing her on an alt account, harassing her in twitch chat when we were being casted, and even joining our scrims just to harass her in chat. If you could stop “trolling” people, that would be a good first step.

@Rene said in Harassment in the RGL Community:

@Constantly that was jeffdimento though

You mean the alt account you made to harass her, screen shared the whole thing while laughing with your friends about it, and then proceeded to bring up every time you see her? You are part of the problem. Don’t act like you aren’t. Just leave her alone.

It’s that very “meme” you were trying to do “for fun” that’ll push more players out of Highlander. If you actually believe that people need to reform, then start with yourself, and help us keep players from being pushed out. This will be the last time I’ll comment on the subject though.

I wanted to bring it up because a fair amount of times, players in this community will look at a thread like this and treat it like someone else’s problem. Self-awareness is key to mitigate the issue of harassment and pushing players out. People who do this “because it’s funny”, “it’s just a meme”, “I’m just joking”, or the infamous “not my fault they don’t have thicker skin” have actually zero awareness on how it affects the person in question.

Hey, this was a private project I’ve been updating since the start of the season, but never really shared it publicly. Since the regular season has ended, I thought now would be a good time to post it for people that like looking at numbers and boosting their egos. I will not be adding the stats from playoffs.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1HInkl-L4sJF294WByFsxMAokSke2XGUqa55OBSLJC3U/edit#gid=1639769440

Most of the numbers were entered at like 3am, so let me know about any inaccuracies in the thread or on discord: Constantly#9508

@Micahlele Based Micahlele

YES. Allowing team leaders–or even regular players–to just be able to switch teams on the same page would be a great quality of life improvement. I am also someone who is a leader on 3/4 of the teams I’m playing on.

Happy Holidays and Merry Christmas to all who celebrate

I hope everyone is having a great 25th!

ggs help!
That match was so sweaty and close and it was absolutely the most fun I’ve had in a long time.
Thank you for such a close match!

This season stressed me out so I’m looking to take it easy and maybe take a break.

4+ seasons of advanced engineer
Will play anything as long as I have fun with it

Discord: Constantly#9508

I have a Challenger team I’m interested in, but I’m hoping to expand my options and see who else might need an engi

I’ve been playing Advanced/Challenger for many seasons now, and I would love to finally break into Invite if possible!

Discord: Constantly#9508

Putting aside the general abuse and how circlejerky the like and dislike feature can be, the raw advantage of having a ‘dislike’ option is to display a more accurate representation of opinions surrounding a particular idea being presented. So when, in a discussion, an idea is presented which is controversial, instead of just showing the number of people who agree with that statement(which would overwhelmingly come across as what a community thinks) it’ll show a split of opinions. A good recent example is Micahlele’s recent post on nr6s which shows 19 likes. That’s a lot of people agreeing with what he’s saying. If you show the 19 likes, but not any dislikes–it comes across as though the community unanimously agrees with it–even if there is a discussion on it 20 or 30 posts down the line. The likes/dislikes give a good idea of what people think about a specific post at a glance. Micahlele’s post may have 19 likes, but if dislikes are shown then maybe there could be 10 dislikes. 19-10 is a lot more divided than a presumed 19-0

That’s just my take on the potential advantages at least. From a productive perspective, I don’t see the point of only having a like button but not a dislike button. I only see it as something to give people ego boosts or to try and force positivity

Alternatively you could, like, just not have likes or dislikes

The ad banner on the side for faceit is fine
but the faceit levels on both player pages and team pages need to go.

@humphrey gonna be honest, a huge reason why I predicted your team would receive a spot was because I was under the assumption that pup and hael were still going to play on their respective main classes. As the roster is right now it feels closer to your s9 team, which isn’t bad by any means, but I feel like the spot could potentially open up for one of the other teams

@ethan said in Regarding Advanced for this upcoming season:

hopefully rgl will simply reintroduce challenger because there was no good reason to remove it in the first place! here’s to a good season for rr challenger and hopefully advanced!

Okay, I’m actually going to challenge this way of thinking and ask what advanced 2.0 actually accomplished for format health

The only reason old Advanced needs to be round robin is because you want the optimal seeding into Invite to support the top division. RR + Double elim playoffs made for the BEST way to determine placements for teams and see who deserves that guaranteed slot in Invite. RR is without a doubt the best tournament structure–but why does mid-high main need it? At what point do we just make every single division round robin?

@Sunnyy Like Johnny said, it’s a theory off my opinions. I should also clarify that this is an article I wrote as a personal opinion piece. This does not represent RGL decisions or thought process, though I did try my best to cover their potential angles of approaching the division.

But if you want to know why I have my opinion as the way I do:

• they have won the head-to-head in scrims against your team.
• they have won the head-to-head against your team last season
• they had a better W/L record last season
• they have an overall higher team experience at the upper end of advanced, and have made playoffs adv season 9.
• they are scrimming invite teams and are trying to compete in Invite, but will likely be in Invite quals(they aren’t able to play in two different quals at once!)

This is an opinion article. I do not speak on behalf of any RGL admins.

We are approaching the end of the offseason, and as we’re seeing teams flesh out their rosters, we are getting a much clearer picture of where teams will be attempting to play in the higher divisions.

For this upcoming season, Advanced will very likely be returning to 8 teams in order to allow the division to be round robin. Round robin is often considered the optimal tournament structure which allows each team to play against every other team once during the regular season and allows the best seeding into Invite–the top division in the league. However, things are starting to get very complicated due to the overwhelming interest.

Currently in the offseason, there are at least 16 teams attempting to play in the division–double the maximum amount of teams in an 8 team division. There is expected to be an Advanced qualifier and possibly an Invite qualifier.

My predictions for who will compete in the division(assuming all invite teams live)

• Inquisition’s team
• maxie’s team
• Firefly’s team
• Marker’s team
• BBL’s team
• Townze’s team
• lee’s team (1st place main)
• (qualifier spot)

Qualifier teams:

• Ta5k’s team
• yate’s team
• Sunnyy’s team
• Best performing team out of the remaining teams

Although I am personally against it, it is possible for the division size to increase to 10-12 teams and transfer it to a swiss system to accommodate more teams.

I do also believe one or two invite slots will potentially open up if a team dies, which will then give Advanced teams an opportunity for another slot

@JohhnyFromCali Yeah, I get your argument
What I’m trying to say is that sort of thing can change without challenger existing; it’s an independent variable
Low invite players could technically main class in advanced if the advanced admin allowed it.

I guess I could also put it another way: How would challenger existing directly result in invite players main-classing in advanced/challenger?

@JohhnyFromCali I think there’s a misunderstanding regarding Challenger

“Challenger” is not actually a new division. The top teams under invite(The highest division) will always be the top teams under Invite. We formerly referred to this division as “Advanced”
The top teams under Invite can be 8 teams, 12 teams, 14 teams, and so on and can have stricter sandbagging restrictions in place–but that’s independent of whether or not “Challenger” exists

What actually happened was that a new division was created below Challenger. This was during a point where the difference between low Main and top Main was overwhelmingly different and old Advanced had consistently over 8 teams interested in playing the division. By creating the new division, low Advanced teams and high Main teams were grouped together to create their own skill-group, while decreasing the skill gap in Main, as well as keeping old Advanced round-robin. This new division adapted the name “Advanced”, and “Challenger” was to replace the division name that was formerly known as Advanced. In hindsight, it was a terrible idea to switch around the names, for sure, but in the moment we needed a good name for this new skill group, and Challenger was definitely less fitting as the third-highest division than the second-highest.

A lot of teams are filling up their spots fast, which is great to see!
However, I feel like there are still teams not listed in both Invite and Advanced.
If anybody has info on new teams not listed, let me know!

Register for RGL Highlander here!

Season 11 Dates

• New Team Registration Open: December 21st
• Invite and Advanced registration Ends: January 19th @ 11:59 PM EST
• New team registration closes : January 21st @ 11:59 PM EST
• Qualifiers (if needed): January 22nd & January 23rd
• Division placements finalized, week 1 matches scheduled: January 26th
• Invite Fees Due: January 31st (Time extension is given for qualifier teams.)
• Regular Season: January 31st – March 14th (7 Weeks)
• Roster Locks: March 7th @ 11:59 PM EST
• Playoffs Start: March 21st
• Last possible date for playoff matches: April 18th

Hey, I have some time during this off-season to help out other engineers! If you or anybody you know would like to sharpen their abilities so they go into the season feeling their best, I’ll be around to help out! The timeframe is kind of limited though since I’ll have a lot on my plate around the time next season starts, so take advantage of the opportunity!