Something I think would genuinely help the development of the comp scene at the T3-T4 level.
Cancel your scrim for the better team.
Elaboration below.
Imagine this, you're looking for a scrim on twitter/discord. You get a dm from a team that competes in top leagues you cant even qual for asking if you are LFS. Problem is you already have one set up with another team that is not as good as them and/or is more or less on the same level as yourself, what should you do?
You cancel. Every time. You cancel for the better team every single time. Why?
Regardless of what circumstances you think you are in, you have been given an opportunity to improve like no other. It's why any T2 team will always cancel for a pro scrim. You have the opportunity to learn something by getting destroyed by a team superior to yourself. You learn much faster through pain than through any other mechanism. You review the WHYs of your lost rounds and you make adjustments that set you up to improve your understanding and competency at any given take/def and/or map.
Some of the most common responses I get when in desperation mode to find a last minute scrim,
1. We have a tryout (s).
So what? You need to understand if the player you want to pick up is good enough to make you better, that's the idea behind trying people out. To see if they are good.
How can you observe that if you smoke a team that isn't on your level. They also need to understand if you are the team that they should even be considering when deciding on offers.
Scrim quality is imperative to understand the skill level of tryouts.
2. We suck at that/those maps.
This is the opportunity to see why you suck. The better team is going to do more efficient/optimal attacks and defenses. That is going to test your approach to any given round to its limits. Every round you get you will have earned rather than being given charity rounds when scriming a lesser opponent.
Then you put the time in to see WHY you suck, why did this not work, what happened on this round FUNDEMENTALLY that caused us to lose. You pivot off of those determinations and become better for it.
This post is not an ego rant, just an observation as to why we see the same teams in every big league and see the same teams/players "stuck" in lower ones.
There are those who want it and those who work for it.
@Braeeito@Trevmak12 But I did play and stress test the map for 1.5 weeks on test server and tested setups and all the walls and vert
As someone who actually likes the map and thinks it could be competitive I want to play it more
@Trevmak12 I fear you haven’t played against any stacks like mine. First round mute ban, Deimos track and lion scan then call and nade them off the spot rinse and repeat she’s op when in combination and without counters
Even better if you have a shield player.