I recently found out that you could 'unprotect' your team on the ladder at any time, to allow teams to challenge you rather than wait the full 48 hour protection period. Never knew this until a couple of weeks ago. Now we all know how frustrating and hard it is to get challenges in. Some teams have been desperately trying to get a challenge in to move into the top 8 for weeks and have been unable to.

Yesterday I found out that Insurgency and Frequency worked together, so that Frequency knew the exact moment INS unprotected themselves, gifting Frequency the challenge a couple of hours before Insurgency would otherwise become unprotected. Kind of annoying for Malice who wanted the opportunity to challenge for first place, but not really that big of a deal.

However it made me wonder, how much of this working together is taking place for teams that are trying to challenge to make it into the top 8, or top 16. It becomes a very big deal if a team misses out on making the final series because one team unprotects themselves, to let their friends challenge them.

Admins should probably look at fixing up this feature on the ladder.

smash em kirby

agreed kirby we were looking to challenge frequency and now consequently maybe be out of top 8.

Valid point, and definitely should be looked at. It's bad enough that teams wait for the 11.30 update so teams can challenge only to find that teams above them have worked together in challenges helping secure their spot. Not very good IMO

wow what a joke i saw that you could unprotect yourself awhile ago but never knew people would learn to exploit it like that, iNS = scared , nice sportsmanship.

I think that the protection status should be waited out and not have the option to be dropped and also decrease the time of protection from 48 hours to 24 hours or something similar because 2 days is too long.

Neori speaks.

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good point kirby

Scared of malice? u mean the team that we beat not long ago? good one. They are a good team but we wouldn't mind playing them. We wanted to play a match so we removed our status.

And think drifter u dumb shit.. the team that we let challenge us is the only team that has beat us! so stop sucking mlc's dick. Its not gonna get u anywhere

@Kirby

I see your point. I will talk to the other admins and sort it out. The best way would prob be to make it so no teams can remove protected status.

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They earned the status and if they wanna give it up, its their choice.
I dont really like teams working together in this way, however, its only a problem if teams are dropping a game, or giving a forfeit win, which would be handled by admin team like any other time. This should prob be an admin only permision to remove tho.

We are currently looking at decreasing some of these waiting periods before and after matches to make it a bit quicker too.

And Baited.. Pfft.

are u seriously gonna use that? i mean i do love it when people turn back to the good ol 'baited' come back. It's quite funny

Re-Baited.
Audion is a idiot, its been proven many times, just ignore him.

how long untill ladder lock ?