More frickin' evil-ness of II.1.
We lost 楽しい recently, and now the #4 team in the Great 8 - Terry Bogard - and the #5 team (MadRipper, who also happens to be the most promising "new guy" we've had in Div II.1 for a while) have been MIA for coming up on 3 weeks. Big 8's が失われることはありません is in the same boat (3rd in the B8).
The problem is that it's simply too damn competitive when compared to the other Div IIs. Teams that are inferior to 楽しい and TB get promoted, whilst there's a 5+ season waiting line for them. Frustrating... and generally I've only looked at it from the perspective of those near the top of the Div, but it must be awful for those who are sticking with the game - but even lower in the pecking order.
So not only are we finding it difficult to keep new players, we're losing the older, established ones too.
The G8 of II.1 has 5 truly active teams at the moment, the B8 4. This is the least active II.1's been since I joined BB.
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