This is a draft at an improved RWC 2027 pool schedule (you can make some tweaks and improvements but the main point is that midweek games are doable with every side still getting at least 5 full days rest between games).
This schedule would have the following pros:
- Games on 15 out of 17 days to keep tournament momentum flowing (WR has 0 games on a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday).
- Fewer games at awful 4am or 5am kickoffs for European/Africa timezone (50% of teams of the tournament) as a result WR overly packing the weekends (WR doing this has likely ruined the great chance of tournament reaching new casuals in Spain).
- Each round gets equal amount two 1 vs 2 & 3 vs 4 pool seed games so not as many lobsided games consecutively (WR foolishly scheduled 5 consecutive likely lopsided games to open the first weekend)
- All teams play their 1 vs 2 or 3 vs 4 likely most important match on a weekend with sole exception of the grand opening on Friday evening which gets a much more hyped match than the one WR has scheduled.
- All the four games (NZ & Aus vs HK, Eng vs Zim, SA vs Rom) most at risk of 100 pts are kept buried to midweek (unlike WR who inexplicably put one of those games in the prime position as grand tournament opener).
Now again to be clear. There may some tweaks to the exact draft proposed here to improve it. But the main point which a few failed to grasp is with 4 teams pools midweek games (which are essential for creating a tournament vibe and momentum) are now possible without the short rests of previous events.
World Rugby in failing to do midweeks when they had the opportunity to do so without short rests, in putting so many games at bad kickoff times in Europe by stuffing weekends, by putting one of the most lopsided games as grand tournament opener, by sequencing several lopsided games together in a row in the first week to get the tournament off to a slow start and increase criticisms of expansion before the event has barely even got going, has made a totally atrocious job of the pool stage scheduling.
It's really telling when the community of "creators" surrounding League are all spewing the same hyperbolic shit about things like this with super biased 10+ years of gameplay perspectives with 0 introspection over said biases and an incentive to farm interactions from others they know will agree by default.
I want to be clear - i'm criticizing them for the way in which they go about these conversations by matching their tone with the same no-actual-conversation shut out language. These people take 0 accountability for the way they word their shit. I don't even think it's intentional at this point, they might genuinely just be that ignorant and view their approach to be a productive one.
Nice QoL change. I'm sure newer players or even less skilled ones would appreciate something like this.
People stopped crying over jungle timers and the 15+ other things that "made the game too easy". Give it time lmao.
@ErrorPingouin so these are all great questions with fairly nuanced answers! we're actually planning some comms around how we want to think about canon, confirming lore details, and some more context around Vayne and Locke, so stay posted!
@VALORANT@discord@Spideraxe30 I don’t know if its you for the Valorant wiki. But is this mini games will saves on the valo wiki ? Like jink fixes everything or demacia rising ?
This piece of lore should be save, i hope you can do something.
Christopher Hitchens: ”In 1786, when the United States was barely a country, it was having its sailors taken as slaves by the Barbary states, the states of the Ottoman Empire and North Africa. Tripoli, shores of Tripoli. Ships stopped, its crews carried off into slavery. We estimate 1.5 million European and American slaves taken between 1750 and 1815.
Jefferson and Adams went to their ambassador in London and said, why do you do this to us? The United States has never had a quarrel with the Muslim world of any kind. We weren't in the crusades. We weren't at war with Spain. Why do you do this to our people and our ships? Why do you plunder and enslave our people? The ambassador said very plainly, Mr. Abdul Rahman said, because the Quran gives us permission to do so, because you are infidels, and that's our answer. Jefferson said, well, in that case, I will send a navy which will crush your state, which he did.
Islamic fundamentalism is not created by American democracy. It's a lie to say so. It's a masochistic lie, and it excuses those who are the real criminals, and blames us for the attacks made upon us.”
🔥 Voici les 3⃣0⃣ 𝗕𝗹𝗲𝘂𝗲𝘁𝘀 qui défendront les couleurs de la France au Championnat du Monde junior en Géorgie ! 🇫🇷
📅 Au programme de la phase de poules :
🇫🇷🇫🇯 - 27 juin
🇫🇷🇪🇸 - 2 juillet
🇫🇷🇦🇺 - 7 juillet
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@VALORANTfr@Dydaser@discord Est ce que le mini jeu restera accessible qqpart pour ceux qui veulent découvrir le Lore et donc cette pièce qui fait partie du Lore de valorant ?
Découvrez l'intérieur de la chambre de Sage au cours de cette quête @Discord spéciale, disponible jusqu'au 2 juillet
🏔️À explorer ici : https://t.co/hrkr2tRPG5