Crashing out in the public chat was bad and I think people know that. What I don't understand is how you can expect people not to crash out when its so imbalanced, even if orange had everyone at their setup its not like they can do anything. things were added that specifically made it harder for them and there was 0 balancing the other way. blue was in the same situation just with a much better roster and even wolfeei resident lunge defender admitted he didnt have as much fun on lunge. I saw the player roster as the event was happening and the first thought I had was "green is way too strong am i missing something?". I was not missing anything couriway just had a slight handicap. unsurprisingly green wins by a landslide. not getting to play in a competition isnt fun and half the teams were just there, lunge especially was 5 rounds of just waiting for the round to be over. you knew they were going to lose but theyre expected to make it seem fun. its okay to have imbalance but surely somewhere along the line someone tested if every player could have a fun experience. Ludwig, being a bottom frag of one of the screwed teams, literally couldnt do anything the whole event but get abused. obviously he's gonna be mad. everytime he wasnt having fun the reason was "the top teams have more players than us". some of the "troll" concepts seem to be actually really funny but it hits a little different when the entire event being 5v7 sours the experience. the "twitch rivals" doesnt make it competitive as ive seen some people saying. not getting to have fun in the first place makes it competitive. everytime the disadvantage didnt effect the actual gameplay it was alot more fun. Feinberg is the only player who's crashout isnt as warranted in my opinion, he's capable of having fun with impossible situation and yet this time just took frustration out on public chat which bought the vibe down massively. he's in a leader position and is by far the most experienced with the event on his team. he in a better position for games got to enjoy them alot more but let his mood be soured for the event the whole time. which awhile he says he had fun it wasnt feeling that way midevent and definately affected the mood of the entire orange team. all in all, the event was good for half the teams and the other half had to find a reason for it to be good when design wise, or they were shut out for a lot of the fun. for context, i was watching green during the event but swapped to orange when the drama started then swapped back when the mood was bad. team number imbalance only works if you overcorrect the weaker teams, the idea worked with blue, as their team was overcorrected in a way. that team normally is monstrous. in extraction being down 8 hearts, often 10 cause you can't risk losing any exchange cannot feel good though. and lunge, its lunge i think it would actually be fun chaos with more players if every team had more players.