Originally posted by jdbolick
Come now, I don't think it's insulting to point out that bug's best defensive plays are ones he copied from me. Again, it's not their fault that they got put in a weak conference. As noted, before the season I thought the conferences looked pretty equal, I just turned out to be rather dramatically wrong.
Originally posted by jdbolick
Without question. S21 Alpha was overrated because of the names involved. HHWC was only a season removed from its three-peat, and we didn't know at the time that their era of relevance was over. Meanwhile back then we still expected MPHD to eventually do something. Remember that D.A.D.D.Y. got the 8th seed. Don't get me wrong, though, as it was a great conference. Alpine had a good season and Lincoln was really strong by the end, but it wasn't as deep in top teams as s23 Zeta. Surely you can admit that QCBC, Canton, Odessa, Guyana, Lincoln, and Hali have been incredibly impressive this season. Mayan, Somalia, and eventually Alpine looked formidable as well, and the Smurfs had their moments.
The difference between S23 Zeta and S21 Alpha is that people decided before the season that s21 alpha was going to be great. Remember the preseason rioting that eventually prompted Bort to change how the conferences are assigned? But once the season was played, alpha did look deeper but not by an enormous amount. Meanwhile, before this season the conferences seemed like they would be relatively even, but at the end of the season there was no one in Alpha who even came close to Zeta's top six.
This is just plain old fashioned trolling bro. Surely you don't think that those 6 teams you mentioned are unbeatable and would crush alpha. What I don't think you get due to not experiencing the top levels of the game down in lolpro this season is that this sim is very much reliant on coordinators and not necessarily the builds. Sure, the builds matter, but Asau beat a lot of good teams this season with what wouldn't normally be considered good builds (and bonn bonn - haven't seen the build but that dot is nasty on the field)
See, it's possible to be a jerk and prove your point without being insulting...