There's a big incentive for lower divisions teams to play based on the prize pool, but is deincentivized by people who purposely attempt to claim the prize by making half their team good and half their team bad as there's no real point playing in a better team against better players because the prize is the same in all divisions.
makes me cringe seeing you write this. wasn't it you who bailed on playing with the Senate TWICE, first in WNL7 to play with ME cuz you wanted to win and second in WIS to play with Unity. you KNOW that if i'm playing with a Senate team it's something that was planned beforehand for some time, so don't try to make it out like the only reason our roster looks like it does is cuz we stacked "half good and half bad" to 'purposely attempt to claim the prize'. you know that isn't true.
I'll repeat it once again, if you just wanted to play with friends, you could have achieved that, but that team is half-stacked and not only from senate friends.
you and fietta are both making it out like the Senate roster was made to be half top players and half div B players so we can get an easy prize. look at the other div A teams. if Matt and I were in Habi's team we'd have a much higher chance of getting the prize than we do with the Senate team. I'm also not sure why you're trying to tell me who are 'senate friends' and who aren't. Matt, Puff and I obviously are, we play with them everyday on discord, and slade is matt/puff's friend and has played with me in several tournaments. ciiges was on our discord daily in the past and asked to join the team after he saw it (though he is now with IR). who else are you referring to? i don't intend to go through every player and tell you how we know them/when we have played with them, but i can tell you, as i already have, that they are all friends of the Senate in some way. the only reason you and fietta are denying that is because you want to create a narrative that this team is some "GIVE SHIRTS" grab that only exists for ez prize. even though i really wanted to play with my good friend Arni, who has played with the Senate guys many times before and is super inactive, hasn't played for ages and is also in Siberia with unstable internet and high ping, i can't let him join cuz then you both will start going on about how we're stacked for div B and just trying to win an easy prize. maybe you should consider that we want to play a casual tournament with our friends?